DEGENERATING Synonyms

• becoming lower or less in degree or value

• decreasing in amount or degree

• coming down freely under the influence of gravity

• (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action

• a descent as through liquid (especially through water)

• a slow fall or decline (as for lack of strength)

• a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension

• any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease

• a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse

• becoming weaker

• the act of reducing the strength of something

• causing debilitation

• moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker

• any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use)

• wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction

• making light of

• changing for the worse

• process of changing to an inferior state

• changing something with the result that it becomes worse

• fall apart

• break or fall apart into fragments

• fall into decay or ruin

• the process of gradually becoming inferior

• a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

• the organic phenomenon of rotting

• an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying

• the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation

• lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current

• fall into decay or ruin

• undergo decay or decomposition

• change toward something smaller or lower

• a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline

• a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

• a downward slope or bend

• grow worse

• not accept as true

• show unwillingness towards

• grow smaller

• go down

• fall in value

• inflect for number, gender, case, etc.

• become worse or disintegrate

• grow progressively worse

• become worse or disintegrate

• grow progressively worse

• break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity

• cause to undergo fission or lose particles

• lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current

• the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence

• returning to a former state

• go back to a statistical means

• go back to a previous state

• get worse or fall back to a previous condition

• go back to bad behavior

• get worse or fall back to a previous condition

• go back to bad behavior

• unrestrained by convention or morality

• unrestrained by convention or morality

• lowered in value

• become worse or disintegrate

• grow progressively worse

• a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

• markedly different from an accepted norm