Deteriorating and making worse
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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- a step backwards idiom
- a step down idiom
- a turn of the screw idiom
- add
- admin
- afford
- aggravate
- aggravating
- aggravating factor
- backslide
- bad
- be downhill idiom
- be half the dancer, writer, etc. you used to be idiom
- beginning
- best
- break
- broke
- cannot afford idiom
- chip
- cliff edge
- complicate
- compound
- debase
- debased
- debasement
- decay
- decline
- declinist
- degenerate
- degenerate into something
- degeneration
- degradation
- degrade
- degraded
- deliquesce
- deliquescence
- derogate
- derogate from something phrasal verb
- descend
- descend into something phrasal verb
- descent
- descent into something
- deteriorate
- deterioration
- devaluation
- devalue
- disintegrate
- dog
- downgrade
- downgrade someone/something to something
- downhill
- enshittification
- exacerbate
- exacerbation
- fan
- fan the flames idiom
- for the worse idiom
- from the sublime to the ridiculous idiom
- go
- go downhill idiom
- go from bad to worse idiom
- go off phrasal verb
- go to hell in a handcart idiom
- go to the bad idiom
- go to the dogs idiom
- gone
- half
- hammering
- have had your chips idiom
- hell
- impairment
- impoverish
- impoverished
- impoverishment
- lapse
- lapse into something phrasal verb
- lower
- make matters worse idiom
- matter
- one step forward, two steps back idiom
- regress
- regression
- regressive
- regressively
- relapse
- retrograde
- retrogress
- retrogression
- retrogressive
- run
- run someone/something down phrasal verb
- seed
- self-debasement
- senescence
- slide
- slip
- slippery slope
- step
- stultification
- stultify
- sublime
- suboptimization
- suboptimize
- subvert
- tank
- the beginning of the end idiom
- to add insult to injury idiom
- to make matters worse idiom
- turn
- vitiate
- vulgarization
- vulgarize
- wear
- wear thin idiom
- worse
- worsen
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