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  • 71deterioration — n. 1. Debasement, degradation, depravation, vitiation, perversion. 2. Degeneration, degeneracy, caducity, decline, impairment …

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  • 72infection — n. 1. Contagion. 2. Contamination, taint, bane, pest, poison, pollution, vitiation, defilement, corruption. 3. (Med.) Contagium, virus …

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  • 73perversion — n. Impairment, injury, vitiation, corruption, debasement, prostitution, abasement …

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  • 74pollution — n. 1. Defilement, contamination, foulness, taint, impurity, uncleanness, abomination, pollutedness, vitiation, corruption. 2. Violation, debauchment, ravishment …

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  • 75sophistication — n. 1. Adulteration, corruption, vitiation. 2. Quibbling. 3. Quibble, fallacious argument, sophism …

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  • 76vitiate — verb (transitive usually passive) formal to make something less effective or spoil it: The conclusions were vitiated by doubts concerning the scientific evidence. vitiation / vISi eISFn/ noun (U) …

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  • 77damage — 1. noun 1) did the thieves do any damage? Syn: harm, destruction, vandalism; injury, impairment, desecration, vitiation, detriment; ruin, havoc, devastation 2) informal what s the damage? Syn …

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  • 78profanation — profanation, desecration, sacrilege, blasphemy can all mean a violation or a misuse of something regarded as sacred. Profanation applies to an irreverent outrage shocking to those who cherish and hold sacred the thing mistreated; although it may… …

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  • 79vicious — vicious, villainous, iniquitous, nefarious, flagitious, infamous, corrupt, degenerate are comparable when they mean highly reprehensible or offensive in character, nature, or conduct. Vicious may imply an addiction to or connection with vice or… …

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  • 80abasement — n 1. degradation, depravation, debasement, vitiation, deterioration, degeneration; devaluation, downfall, fall, descent, lowering, reduction, detrusion, depression; humiliation, humble pie, mortification, deflation; humility, humbleness, meekness …

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