English words for '(idiomatic) in a period of decrease or decline'
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noun
verb
- (idiomatic) To quietly abandon a belief.
- (idiomatic) To stop what one is doing and evaluate the current situation.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see step, back.
- (idiomatic) To prevent oneself from becoming emotionally involved in a certain situation.
- (idiomatic) To retreat from one's duties in a job; to reduce one's duties, often as a prelude to leaving a position; to take a back seat.
- (rail transport, of a driver at a terminal station) to depart driving the train following the train they arrived into the station driving, so as to decrease service turnaround time.
noun
- (idiomatic) The period or state of cognitive decline of an elderly person, characterized by childlike judgment and behavior.
- (idiomatic) A childlike state in any adult, resulting from mental illness, trauma, or other conditions.
- mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations
noun
verb
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To combine thoroughly.
- (transitive, usually passive voice, with with, often with be or get) To become involved with, especially socially or romantically.
- To shuffle.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To mix or blend thoroughly and completely.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To prepare something from ingredients that are mixed.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To confuse or reverse.
- assemble without order or sense
- cause to be perplexed or confounded
noun
noun
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
verb
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
verb
noun
- An act of falling down.
- The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error.
- A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
- the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
prep_phrase
noun
- (idiomatic, usually preceded by the) The time after the solution or completion of a problem, adversity, or challenge.
- (idiomatic, usually preceded by the and sometimes capitalized) The afterlife, as a supernatural realm inhabited by spirits of deceased people.
- (idiomatic, preceded by the) The other side of the Atlantic Ocean (usually between the United States and the United Kingdom).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see other, side.
noun
- (idiomatic) A situation in which a person or group repeats a cycle of behaviors or experiences, usually with unsuccessful or undesirable results.
- (idiomatic, often government) A situation in which a person changes employers, perhaps more than once, switching between (a) employment with the government or with an organization having oversight authority and (b) employment with an organization regulated by or overseen by the other employer.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which employee turnover in an organization is inordinately high.
verb
- (idiomatic) To result or transpire.
- (nautical, transitive) To unfurl a reef from a sail
- (sports) To shake one's arms or legs, in order to resist muscle fatigue.
- (transitive, also figurative) To agitate a piece of cloth or other flexible material in order to remove dust, or to try to make it smooth and flat.
noun
- (idiomatic) Something tending to have both good and bad results or characteristics; something having a mixture of advantages and disadvantages.
- Any bag containing a mixture of something.
- (by extension) A group of entities with few characteristics in common.
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
verb
- (intransitive, figurative) To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
- (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
- (intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.
- (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
- (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
- become limp
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- hang loosely or laxly
noun
noun
verb
- (idiomatic) To quietly abandon a belief.
- (idiomatic) To stop what one is doing and evaluate the current situation.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see step, back.
- (idiomatic) To prevent oneself from becoming emotionally involved in a certain situation.
- (idiomatic) To retreat from one's duties in a job; to reduce one's duties, often as a prelude to leaving a position; to take a back seat.
- (rail transport, of a driver at a terminal station) to depart driving the train following the train they arrived into the station driving, so as to decrease service turnaround time.
noun
- (idiomatic) The period or state of cognitive decline of an elderly person, characterized by childlike judgment and behavior.
- (idiomatic) A childlike state in any adult, resulting from mental illness, trauma, or other conditions.
- mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations
noun
verb
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To combine thoroughly.
- (transitive, usually passive voice, with with, often with be or get) To become involved with, especially socially or romantically.
- To shuffle.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To mix or blend thoroughly and completely.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To prepare something from ingredients that are mixed.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To confuse or reverse.
- assemble without order or sense
- cause to be perplexed or confounded
noun
noun
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
verb
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
noun
- (idiomatic, usually preceded by the) The time after the solution or completion of a problem, adversity, or challenge.
- (idiomatic, usually preceded by the and sometimes capitalized) The afterlife, as a supernatural realm inhabited by spirits of deceased people.
- (idiomatic, preceded by the) The other side of the Atlantic Ocean (usually between the United States and the United Kingdom).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see other, side.
noun
- (idiomatic) A situation in which a person or group repeats a cycle of behaviors or experiences, usually with unsuccessful or undesirable results.
- (idiomatic, often government) A situation in which a person changes employers, perhaps more than once, switching between (a) employment with the government or with an organization having oversight authority and (b) employment with an organization regulated by or overseen by the other employer.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which employee turnover in an organization is inordinately high.
noun
- (idiomatic) Something tending to have both good and bad results or characteristics; something having a mixture of advantages and disadvantages.
- Any bag containing a mixture of something.
- (by extension) A group of entities with few characteristics in common.
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
verb
noun
- An act of falling down.
- The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error.
- A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
- the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
verb
- (idiomatic) To result or transpire.
- (nautical, transitive) To unfurl a reef from a sail
- (sports) To shake one's arms or legs, in order to resist muscle fatigue.
- (transitive, also figurative) To agitate a piece of cloth or other flexible material in order to remove dust, or to try to make it smooth and flat.
verb
- (intransitive, figurative) To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
- (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
- (intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.
- (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
- (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
- become limp
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- hang loosely or laxly