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agudization
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pot
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blow
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monovacancy
wear out
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run down
wear thin
far gone
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hit
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retrogradation
smashup
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souredness
dysfunctionally
backfiring
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instability
afflicting
degeneration
disprofit
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dysfunctionality
degradingly
dilapidate
scar
slumplike
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mark
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adversity
scratch
debilitative
scrape
scathefulness
noxiously
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dive
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-pathy
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get worse
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prep_phrase
verb
- deteriorate
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- be unsuccessful
- disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
- stop operating or functioning
- be unable
- judge unacceptable
- fail to get a passing grade
- fall short in what is expected
- become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close
- prove insufficient
verb
- To cause to rot or deteriorate.
- To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
- To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.
- To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
- Loss of airspeed due to drag.
- To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
- To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons; to undergo radioactive decay.
- Of an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function.
- To rot, to go bad.
- To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
noun
noun
- Ruin or deterioration.
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
- A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
- Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
- An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- Marijuana.
- A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
- A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
- A perforated cask for draining sugar.
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
- A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
- A plaster cast.
- Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
- A crucible: a melting pot.
- A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
verb
- To put (something) into a pot.
- To secure; gain; win; bag.
- To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
- To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
- To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- To be capable of being potted.
- To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- To shoot with a firearm.
- To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- To score (a drop goal).
noun
- A weakening.
- Downward movement, fall.
- A reduction or diminution of activity.
- The act of declining or refusing something.
- A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
verb
- To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
- To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
- To cause to decrease or diminish.
- To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
- To become weaker or worse.
- To recite all the different declined forms of (a word).
noun
- A damaging occurrence.
- Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”)
- Cocaine.
- An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- Cannabis.
- A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
- An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- A bloom, state of flowering.
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- A strong wind.
- The act of striking or hitting.
- A blowjob; fellatio.
- A display of anything brilliant or bright.
- Heroin.
- A chance to catch one's breath.
- A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
verb
- (used to express displeasure or frustration) Damn.
- To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
- To flatulate or defecate.
- To produce an air current.
- To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
- To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
- To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
- (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
- To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- To be propelled by an air current.
- To sing.
- To blow from a gun.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
- To make a sound as the result of being blown.
- To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- To cause the sudden destruction of.
- To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
- To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- To suddenly fail destructively.
- To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- To be very undesirable.
- To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- To recklessly squander.
- To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
adj
verb
- deteriorate through use or stress
- be dressed in
- have on one's person
- have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality
- have or show an appearance of
- last and be usable
- go to pieces
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- put clothing on one's body
noun
verb
- To decline in quality or condition.
- To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted.
- To describe in the form of a rundown, a rough outline or summary.
- To reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure.
- To run against and sink, as a vessel.
- To read quickly a list or other short text.
- To find something or someone after searching for a long time.
- To lose power slowly. Used for a machine, battery, or other powered device.
- To crush; to overthrow; to overbear.
- To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them.
- To criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly.
verb
- To affect negatively.
- To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- To come up to bat.
- To have sex with.
- To attack.
- To strike against something.
- To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To attack, especially amphibiously.
- In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- to work out
- To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- To switch on.
- To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- To reach or achieve.
- To use; to connect to.
- (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- To briefly visit.
- To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
pron
adj
noun
- The hit was very slight.
- A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
verb
noun
noun
- Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
- The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
- That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure.
- A thing that has degenerated.
noun
verb
- cause the failure or ruin of
- terminate or end
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- render inoperable or ineffective
- ruin completely
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- move away or escape suddenly
- scatter or part
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- prevent completion
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- surpass in excellence
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- come into being
- stop operating or functioning
- interrupt a continued activity
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- lessen in force or effect
- be broken in
- come to an end
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- cause to give up a habit
- give up
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- happen or take place
- invalidate by judicial action
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- change directions suddenly
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- do a break dance
- exchange for smaller units of money
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- go to pieces
- break a piece from a whole
- become punctured or penetrated
- pierce or penetrate
- be released or become known; of news
- cease an action temporarily
- interrupt the flow of current in
- undergo breaking
- find a flaw in
- find the solution or key to
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- happen
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- fall sharply
- fracture a bone of
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
noun
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- the occurrence of breaking
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- a sudden dash
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an escape from jail
noun
- an indication of damage
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
- a distinguishing symbol
- a reference point to shoot at
- a visible indication made on a surface
- the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember
- a symbol of disgrace or infamy
- formerly the basic unit of money in Germany
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation)
- a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
- something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal
verb
- attach a tag or label to
- designate as if by a mark
- be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
- celebrate by some ceremony or observation
- make or leave a mark on
- to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
- notice or perceive
- mark with a scar
- make small marks into the surface of
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- make underscoring marks
- remove from a list
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
- insert punctuation marks into
verb
- To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
- To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.
- To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
- To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.
- To be very hungry.
- To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
noun
- an indication of damage
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- informal terms for money
- a competitor who has withdrawn from competition
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- dry mash for poultry
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- poor handwriting
- (golf) a handicap of zero strokes
verb
- cause friction
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
noun
- A decline.
- A downward swooping motion.
- A swim under water.
- A jump or plunge into water.
- Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
- A deliberate fall after a challenge.
- A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
- A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
verb
- To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
- To descend sharply or steeply.
- To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
- To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
- To undertake with enthusiasm.
- To swim under water.
- To explore by diving; to plunge into.
- To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
- To jump into water head-first.
verb
- To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- To push (something) into something.
- To make by digging or delving.
- To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- To pay absolutely.
- To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
noun
- An object or callback that captures events; an event sink.
- A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- Descending motion; descent.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
- A sinkhole.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A heat sink.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- The motion of a sinker pitch.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
verb
- To gradually weaken.
- To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
- To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- To exhaust the vitality of.
- To pierce with saps.
- To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
noun
- A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- Vitality.
- A naive person; a simpleton
- Any juice.
- A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
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