English words for 'condition leading to progressive loss of function'
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noun
- loss of ability to function normally
- a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
- an act that fails
- inability to discharge all your debts as they come due
- lack of success
- an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose
- an unexpected omission
- Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function; breakdown.
- (pathology) A condition in which a specified organ does not function well enough to support life.
- An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure, has failed at something or incapable of success.
- Bankruptcy.
- State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
- Omission to do something, whether or not it was attempted, especially something that ought to have been done.
adj
- Having a loss of capability or function. Having undergone deterioration, degradation.
- (heraldry, not comparable) Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the centre; on degrees.
- Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
- (biology) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
- lowered in value
- unrestrained by convention or morality
verb
adj
- impaired in function; especially of a bodily system or organ
- (of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose
- Functioning incorrectly or abnormally; especially, designating of a business, family or social group with harmful, aberrant, strange or abnormal behavior.
- Not performing its proper or intended function.
noun
- an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
- (medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
- (figuratively) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
- A lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
verb
noun
- an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion
- the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink
- a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
- a natural event caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in
- (cricket) Ellipsis of batting collapse.
- Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).
- The act of collapsing.
verb
- collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
- fold or close up
- cause to burst
- fall apart
- lose significance, effectiveness, or value
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- suffer a nervous breakdown
- (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
- (transitive) To cause something to collapse.
- (transitive, computing) In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to hide the subentries of (an entry).
- (intransitive, cricket) To suffer a batting collapse.
- (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
- (intransitive) To fold compactly.
- (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
noun
- an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion
- the act of assuming a prostrate position
- abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body
- The condition of being prostrated, as from heat; complete loss of strength.
- The act or condition of prostrating oneself (lying face-down), as a sign of humility.
- The state of lying face down (prone).
- A reverential bow performed in Middle Eastern cultures.
- A part of the ordination of Catholic and Orthodox priests, in which the ordinand lies prostrate in a gesture of submission to the will of God.
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noun
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
- a condition in which things are not in their expected places
- a disturbance of the peace or of public order
- A disturbance of civic peace or of public order.
- (medicine, countable) A physical or mental malfunction.
- Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.
verb
noun
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
- a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- an improbable and unexpected victory
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- the act of upsetting something
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
- (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
- An upset stomach.
- (basketry) A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
adj
- used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- mildly physically distressed
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
- (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
- (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy
verb
- form metals with a swage
- disturb the balance or stability of
- cause to lose one's composure
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
- move deeply
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
- (transitive, basketry) To support with an upset (type of woven row).
- (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
- (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- (metalworking) To thicken and shorten a soft or heated piece of metal, by forging or hammering on the end, to shape, for example, rivets or internal combustion engine valves.
- (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
adj
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
- resulting in suffering or adversity
- distressing
- presaging ill fortune
- indicating hostility or enmity
- (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
- (Appalachia) Bad-tempered.
- (slang, chiefly hip-hop) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
- Nauseated; having an urge to vomit.
- Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
- Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
- Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
noun
adv
adj
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
- having a strong distaste from surfeit
- feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
- shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
- deeply affected by a strong feeling
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- affected with madness or insanity
- [with with] Afflicted by (a specific condition, usually medical).
- (agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
- In poor health; ill.
- (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
- Having an urge to vomit.
- (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
- [with of] Tired of or annoyed by (something that has lasted a long time or often recurs).
- In poor condition.
- (colloquial) In bad taste.
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noun
- (pathology) A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
- Madness or insanity.
- mental deterioration of organic or functional origin
noun
- impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
- defectiveness or unsoundness
- the state that precedes vomiting
- The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
- (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
- Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
verb
- deteriorate in health
- go back to bad behavior
- (intransitive, informal, specifically) To return to a vice, especially self-harm or alcoholism, failing to maintain abstinence.
- To slip or slide back physically; to turn back.
- (intransitive) To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.
- (intransitive, medicine, of a disease) To recur; to worsen, be aggravated (after a period of improvement).
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noun
- a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline
- a polite refusal of an invitation
- (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere
- a downward slope or bend
- A refusal.
- (linguistics, prosody) The gradual decline in the overall fundamental frequency or pitch of speech over the course of an utterance, independent of local variations such as tones and pitch accents.
- At a given point, the angle between magnetic north and true north.
- At a given point, the angle between the line connecting this point with the geographical center of the earth and the equatorial plane.
noun
- a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline
- A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening.
- change toward something smaller or lower
- a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- a downward slope or bend
- Downward movement, fall.
- A reduction or diminution of activity, prevalence or quantity.
- A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
- The act of declining or refusing something.
verb
- go down
- not accept as true
- show unwillingness towards
- inflect for number, gender, case, etc.
- grow smaller
- fall in value
- grow worse
- (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- (by extension) To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
- (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
- (transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
- (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- (American football, Canadian football) 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.
- (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- (transitive, grammar) To recite all the different declined forms of (a word): to recite its declension.
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noun
- A deterioration or weakening.
- (accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.
- The result of being impaired.
- An inefficient part or factor.
- A disability or handicap.
- damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality
- a symptom of reduced quality or strength
- the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness
- the occurrence of a change for the worse
- the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
noun
- any deviation from a healthy or normal condition
- the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases
- (biology, life sciences) Any of several interrelated scientific disciplines that advance the aspects of the life sciences that allow for such technological applications and their advancements over time.
- (clinical medicine) The clinical biomedical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services to clinicians (e.g., cytology, histology, cytopathology, histopathology, cytometry).
- (academic medicine) The academic biomedical specialty that advances the aspects of the biomedical sciences that allow for those clinical applications and their advancements over time.
- Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.
adv
- in an inactive or inoperative state
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- from an earlier time
- to a lower intensity
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- paid in cash at time of purchase
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- (crosswords, in relation to a numbered clued word) In a downwards direction; vertically.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- So as to be cowed into silence.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- From less to greater detail.
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- As a down payment.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
adj
- being put out in a game of baseball
- lower than previously
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- understood perfectly
- becoming progressively lower
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value
- (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
- (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- (veterinary medicine, of a cow) Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
- (rail transport, of a train) Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
- (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- (slang) In prison.
- (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
- (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
- Facing downwards.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
noun
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- soft fine feathers
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- (gambling) The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
- (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- (especially Southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
- (crosswording) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- Down payment.
- A downer, depressant.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
verb
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- shoot at and force to come down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- drink down entirely
- cause to come or go down
- (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
- (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
- (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
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- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- Towards the mouth of (a river); in the direction of flow of.
- (UK, Ireland) To (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
- (UK, Ireland) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From the higher end to the lower of.
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verb
- (transitive) To cause to malfunction or become inoperative.
- (transitive) To cause disorder in (something); to distort from its ideal state.
- (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To cause (someone) to go insane or become deranged.
- throw into great confusion or disorder
- derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane
verb
- (transitive) To cause impairment of.
- (transitive) To breach (a security system).
- (intransitive) To find a way between extremes.
- (ambitransitive) To bind by mutual agreement.
- To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
- To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.
- expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute
- settle by concession
- make a compromise; arrive at a compromise
noun
- (computer security) A breach of a computer or network's rules such that an unauthorized disclosure or loss of sensitive information may have occurred, or the unauthorized disclosure or loss itself.
- The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
- A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
- an accommodation in which both sides make concessions
- a middle way between two extremes
noun
- (physiology) The regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.
- (neologism) A state of increased competition for limited resources, requiring great effort to stay ahead.
- (biology) The migration of a cell layer inward, sliding over an outer layer of cells. It occurs at gastrulation during embryogenesis.
- (medicine) The shrinking of an organ (such as the uterus) to a former size.
- Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.
- (mathematics) An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
- (economics, social sciences, of a society or nation) A cessation of development or progress involving intense inner competition.
- A complicated grammatical construction.
- the action of enfolding something
- the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
- the act of sharing in the activities of a group
- marked by elaborately complex detail
- reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)
- a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction
noun
- Gradual loss or decay.
- (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
- Excrement or urine.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
- A disused mine or part of one.
- A vast expanse of water.
- (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the trait of wasting resources
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
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- (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
- (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- use inefficiently or inappropriately
- dispose of
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- cause to grow thin or weak
- run off as waste
- become physically weaker
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- spend extravagantly
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
noun
- (pathology) Initialism of multiple system atrophy.
- (aviation) Initialism of minimum safe altitude.
- (law) Initialism of master service agreement.
- Initialism of Master Settlement Agreement.
- (computing) Initialism of mail submission agent.
- (US, demography) Initialism of metropolitan statistical area.
- (UK, Ireland) Initialism of motorway service area.
- Abbreviation of mechanically steered array.
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- (Malaysia, Singapore, aviation, historical) Initialism of Malaysia-Singapore Airlines.
- Initialism of Modern Standard Arabic (Fusha).
- (US) Initialism of Michigan Statutes Annotated.
- (Java programming language) Initialism of Mobile Service Architecture.
- Initialism of Modern South Arabian.
- Initialism of Middle Stone Age.
noun
- a cessation of normal operation
- the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
- (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
- (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance
- an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
- a mental or physical breakdown
- (film, television, countable) A detailed description of a forthcoming project or screenplay which identifies all the required elements, such as the cast, costumes, equipment, props, and special effects.
- Synonym of percussion break (“a percussion-focused segment of a song, chosen by a hip-hop DJ to manipulate through cutting, mixing, and other techniques in order to create rhythmic music”).
- (music) A piece of music played for such a dance, especially a rapid bluegrass tune featuring a five-string banjo.
- (rugby union, countable and uncountable with the) The short period of open play immediately after a tackle and before and during the ensuing ruck.
- (originally and chiefly New Zealand, countable, chiefly attributive) An act of splitting logs of wood using a large saw in a sawmill; also, the saw used; or (rare) the building in which the process is carried out.
- (physics, uncountable) The sudden (and usually damaging) transition of an electrical insulator to a conductor when subjected to a sufficiently strong voltage, caused by the partial or complete ionization of the insulator; (countable) an instance of this; also, the minimum voltage at which this occurs.
- (uncountable) Detailed categorization, or itemization or listing, of the components of a thing; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) A failure in a relationship; a failure or loss of organization in a system.
- (chemistry, uncountable) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) Something, such as a vehicle, that has experienced a mechanical failure.
- A part of a piece of music or a song which differs from the other parts in that it features improvisation or is stripped down (for example, played by fewer instruments or a solo performer).
- (uncountable) (Sudden) worsening of physical health or (more commonly) mental stability, resulting in an inability to carry on normal activities; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.
- (veterinary medicine, uncountable) Injury to a horse's leg causing lameness; (countable) an instance of this.
- A section of a song, typical in hardcore music and related styles (such as metalcore, grindcore, and deathcore), characterized by a lower tempo and greater heaviness and intensity of sound.
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- (uncountable) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
- (uncountable, countable) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
- (countable) A thing that has degenerated.
- (uncountable) 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.
- the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
- passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
- the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
noun
- loss of ability to function normally
- a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
- an act that fails
- inability to discharge all your debts as they come due
- lack of success
- an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose
- an unexpected omission
- Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function; breakdown.
- (pathology) A condition in which a specified organ does not function well enough to support life.
- An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure, has failed at something or incapable of success.
- Bankruptcy.
- State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
- Omission to do something, whether or not it was attempted, especially something that ought to have been done.
noun
- an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
- (medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
- (figuratively) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
- A lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
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noun
- an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion
- the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink
- a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
- a natural event caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in
- (cricket) Ellipsis of batting collapse.
- Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).
- The act of collapsing.
verb
- collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
- fold or close up
- cause to burst
- fall apart
- lose significance, effectiveness, or value
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- suffer a nervous breakdown
- (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
- (transitive) To cause something to collapse.
- (transitive, computing) In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to hide the subentries of (an entry).
- (intransitive, cricket) To suffer a batting collapse.
- (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
- (intransitive) To fold compactly.
- (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
noun
- an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion
- the act of assuming a prostrate position
- abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body
- The condition of being prostrated, as from heat; complete loss of strength.
- The act or condition of prostrating oneself (lying face-down), as a sign of humility.
- The state of lying face down (prone).
- A reverential bow performed in Middle Eastern cultures.
- A part of the ordination of Catholic and Orthodox priests, in which the ordinand lies prostrate in a gesture of submission to the will of God.
noun
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
- a condition in which things are not in their expected places
- a disturbance of the peace or of public order
- A disturbance of civic peace or of public order.
- (medicine, countable) A physical or mental malfunction.
- Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.
verb
noun
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
- a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- an improbable and unexpected victory
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- the act of upsetting something
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
- (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
- An upset stomach.
- (basketry) A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
adj
- used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- mildly physically distressed
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
- (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
- (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy
verb
- form metals with a swage
- disturb the balance or stability of
- cause to lose one's composure
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
- move deeply
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
- (transitive, basketry) To support with an upset (type of woven row).
- (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
- (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- (metalworking) To thicken and shorten a soft or heated piece of metal, by forging or hammering on the end, to shape, for example, rivets or internal combustion engine valves.
- (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
noun
- (pathology) A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
- Madness or insanity.
- mental deterioration of organic or functional origin
noun
- impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
- defectiveness or unsoundness
- the state that precedes vomiting
- The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
- (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
- Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline
- a polite refusal of an invitation
- (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere
- a downward slope or bend
- A refusal.
- (linguistics, prosody) The gradual decline in the overall fundamental frequency or pitch of speech over the course of an utterance, independent of local variations such as tones and pitch accents.
- At a given point, the angle between magnetic north and true north.
- At a given point, the angle between the line connecting this point with the geographical center of the earth and the equatorial plane.
noun
- a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline
- A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening.
- change toward something smaller or lower
- a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- a downward slope or bend
- Downward movement, fall.
- A reduction or diminution of activity, prevalence or quantity.
- A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
- The act of declining or refusing something.
verb
- go down
- not accept as true
- show unwillingness towards
- inflect for number, gender, case, etc.
- grow smaller
- fall in value
- grow worse
- (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- (by extension) To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
- (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
- (transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
- (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- (American football, Canadian football) 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.
- (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- (transitive, grammar) To recite all the different declined forms of (a word): to recite its declension.
noun
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A deterioration or weakening.
- (accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.
- The result of being impaired.
- An inefficient part or factor.
- A disability or handicap.
- damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality
- a symptom of reduced quality or strength
- the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness
- the occurrence of a change for the worse
- the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
noun
- any deviation from a healthy or normal condition
- the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases
- (biology, life sciences) Any of several interrelated scientific disciplines that advance the aspects of the life sciences that allow for such technological applications and their advancements over time.
- (clinical medicine) The clinical biomedical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services to clinicians (e.g., cytology, histology, cytopathology, histopathology, cytometry).
- (academic medicine) The academic biomedical specialty that advances the aspects of the biomedical sciences that allow for those clinical applications and their advancements over time.
- Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.
noun
- (physiology) The regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.
- (neologism) A state of increased competition for limited resources, requiring great effort to stay ahead.
- (biology) The migration of a cell layer inward, sliding over an outer layer of cells. It occurs at gastrulation during embryogenesis.
- (medicine) The shrinking of an organ (such as the uterus) to a former size.
- Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.
- (mathematics) An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
- (economics, social sciences, of a society or nation) A cessation of development or progress involving intense inner competition.
- A complicated grammatical construction.
- the action of enfolding something
- the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
- the act of sharing in the activities of a group
- marked by elaborately complex detail
- reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)
- a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction
noun
- Gradual loss or decay.
- (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
- Excrement or urine.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
- A disused mine or part of one.
- A vast expanse of water.
- (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the trait of wasting resources
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
- (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- use inefficiently or inappropriately
- dispose of
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- cause to grow thin or weak
- run off as waste
- become physically weaker
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- spend extravagantly
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
noun
- (pathology) Initialism of multiple system atrophy.
- (aviation) Initialism of minimum safe altitude.
- (law) Initialism of master service agreement.
- Initialism of Master Settlement Agreement.
- (computing) Initialism of mail submission agent.
- (US, demography) Initialism of metropolitan statistical area.
- (UK, Ireland) Initialism of motorway service area.
- Abbreviation of mechanically steered array.
name
- (Malaysia, Singapore, aviation, historical) Initialism of Malaysia-Singapore Airlines.
- Initialism of Modern Standard Arabic (Fusha).
- (US) Initialism of Michigan Statutes Annotated.
- (Java programming language) Initialism of Mobile Service Architecture.
- Initialism of Modern South Arabian.
- Initialism of Middle Stone Age.
noun
- a cessation of normal operation
- the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
- (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
- (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance
- an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
- a mental or physical breakdown
- (film, television, countable) A detailed description of a forthcoming project or screenplay which identifies all the required elements, such as the cast, costumes, equipment, props, and special effects.
- Synonym of percussion break (“a percussion-focused segment of a song, chosen by a hip-hop DJ to manipulate through cutting, mixing, and other techniques in order to create rhythmic music”).
- (music) A piece of music played for such a dance, especially a rapid bluegrass tune featuring a five-string banjo.
- (rugby union, countable and uncountable with the) The short period of open play immediately after a tackle and before and during the ensuing ruck.
- (originally and chiefly New Zealand, countable, chiefly attributive) An act of splitting logs of wood using a large saw in a sawmill; also, the saw used; or (rare) the building in which the process is carried out.
- (physics, uncountable) The sudden (and usually damaging) transition of an electrical insulator to a conductor when subjected to a sufficiently strong voltage, caused by the partial or complete ionization of the insulator; (countable) an instance of this; also, the minimum voltage at which this occurs.
- (uncountable) Detailed categorization, or itemization or listing, of the components of a thing; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) A failure in a relationship; a failure or loss of organization in a system.
- (chemistry, uncountable) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) Something, such as a vehicle, that has experienced a mechanical failure.
- A part of a piece of music or a song which differs from the other parts in that it features improvisation or is stripped down (for example, played by fewer instruments or a solo performer).
- (uncountable) (Sudden) worsening of physical health or (more commonly) mental stability, resulting in an inability to carry on normal activities; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.
- (veterinary medicine, uncountable) Injury to a horse's leg causing lameness; (countable) an instance of this.
- A section of a song, typical in hardcore music and related styles (such as metalcore, grindcore, and deathcore), characterized by a lower tempo and greater heaviness and intensity of sound.
noun
noun
- (uncountable) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
- (uncountable, countable) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
- (countable) A thing that has degenerated.
- (uncountable) 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.
- the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
- passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
- the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
verb
- deteriorate in health
- go back to bad behavior
- (intransitive, informal, specifically) To return to a vice, especially self-harm or alcoholism, failing to maintain abstinence.
- To slip or slide back physically; to turn back.
- (intransitive) To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.
- (intransitive, medicine, of a disease) To recur; to worsen, be aggravated (after a period of improvement).
noun
verb
- (transitive) To cause to malfunction or become inoperative.
- (transitive) To cause disorder in (something); to distort from its ideal state.
- (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To cause (someone) to go insane or become deranged.
- throw into great confusion or disorder
- derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane
verb
- (transitive) To cause impairment of.
- (transitive) To breach (a security system).
- (intransitive) To find a way between extremes.
- (ambitransitive) To bind by mutual agreement.
- To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
- To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.
- expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute
- settle by concession
- make a compromise; arrive at a compromise
noun
- (computer security) A breach of a computer or network's rules such that an unauthorized disclosure or loss of sensitive information may have occurred, or the unauthorized disclosure or loss itself.
- The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
- A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
- an accommodation in which both sides make concessions
- a middle way between two extremes
noun
verb
adv
- in an inactive or inoperative state
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- from an earlier time
- to a lower intensity
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- paid in cash at time of purchase
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- (crosswords, in relation to a numbered clued word) In a downwards direction; vertically.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- So as to be cowed into silence.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- From less to greater detail.
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- As a down payment.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
adj
- being put out in a game of baseball
- lower than previously
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- understood perfectly
- becoming progressively lower
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value
- (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
- (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- (veterinary medicine, of a cow) Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
- (rail transport, of a train) Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
- (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- (slang) In prison.
- (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
- (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
- Facing downwards.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
noun
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- soft fine feathers
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- (gambling) The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
- (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- (especially Southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
- (crosswording) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- Down payment.
- A downer, depressant.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
verb
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- shoot at and force to come down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- drink down entirely
- cause to come or go down
- (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
- (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
- (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- Towards the mouth of (a river); in the direction of flow of.
- (UK, Ireland) To (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
- (UK, Ireland) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From the higher end to the lower of.
adj
- Having a loss of capability or function. Having undergone deterioration, degradation.
- (heraldry, not comparable) Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the centre; on degrees.
- Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
- (biology) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
- lowered in value
- unrestrained by convention or morality
verb
adj
- impaired in function; especially of a bodily system or organ
- (of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose
- Functioning incorrectly or abnormally; especially, designating of a business, family or social group with harmful, aberrant, strange or abnormal behavior.
- Not performing its proper or intended function.
adj
noun
verb
adj
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
- resulting in suffering or adversity
- distressing
- presaging ill fortune
- indicating hostility or enmity
- (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
- (Appalachia) Bad-tempered.
- (slang, chiefly hip-hop) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
- Nauseated; having an urge to vomit.
- Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
- Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
- Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
noun
adv
adj
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
- having a strong distaste from surfeit
- feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
- shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
- deeply affected by a strong feeling
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- affected with madness or insanity
- [with with] Afflicted by (a specific condition, usually medical).
- (agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
- In poor health; ill.
- (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
- Having an urge to vomit.
- (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
- [with of] Tired of or annoyed by (something that has lasted a long time or often recurs).
- In poor condition.
- (colloquial) In bad taste.