17K+ Words That Rhyme With DOWNGRADING

• the act of arranging in a graduated series

• changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface

• evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score

• walking with your feet in shallow water

• characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding

• harmful to the mind or morals

• used of conduct; characterized by dishonor

• weakening in force or intensity

• an upward slope or grade (as in a road)

• software that provides better performance than an earlier version did

• a reservation that is improved

• the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises

• hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did

• the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components)

• rate higher; raise in value or esteem

• to improve what was old or outdated

• give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

• get better travel conditions

• give better travel conditions to

• involving invasion or aggressive attack

• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

• escape, either physically or mentally

• practice evasion

• use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid

• win approval or support for

• cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm

• trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains

• a ceremonial procession including people marching

• an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things

• a visible display

• walk ostentatiously

• march in a procession in a public place

• a party of guests wearing costumes and masks

• a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party

• making a false outward show

• take part in a masquerade

• pretend to be someone or something that you are not

• blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors

• goods carried by a large vehicle

• graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting

• a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades

• spread or diffuse through

• a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do

• the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

• gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause

• the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something

• give help or assistance; be of service

• improve the condition of

• a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form

• a song characteristically played outside the house of a woman

• sing and play for somebody

• To skate on rollerblades.

• To furnish with a blade.

• To put forth or have a blade.

• To stab with a blade

• To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.

• projecting inward

• the act of mating closely related individuals

• the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message

• a city on the River Thames in Berkshire in southern England

• a particular interpretation or performance

• a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument

• written material intended to be read

• a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something

• a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance

• the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments

• a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.

• a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy

• render unsuitable for passage

• prevent access to by barricading

• block off with barricades

• gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation

• rake or be in a position to rake with gunfire in a lengthwise direction

• the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed

• the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony

• a party of people at a wedding

• wear away

• rub hard or scrub

• build up to a level by depositing sediment

• a covered passageway with shops and stalls on either side

• a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

• thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern

• weave a design into (textiles)

• (ballet) a gliding or sliding step in ballet

• perform a glissade, in ballet

• To slope or incline from the vertical.

• a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite

• a woman adulterer

• a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green

• an old or over-worked horse

• of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green

• lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

• exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

• hairdressing consisting of a perfumed oil or ointment

• apply pomade to (hair)

• To grade again, give a new grade or grading to.

• To regroup or reassign.

• To change the classification of (potentially secret documentation).

• To retire or recede.

• The act of changing the grade of something

• a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it

• a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot

• dig (up) with a spade

• To enclose in a stockade.

• remove the load from (a container or vehicle)

• elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression

• the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)

• helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

• the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization

• the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring

• producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring

• able to control or determine policy

• something written by hand

• the activity of writing by hand

• becoming greater or larger

• (music) increasing in tempo and/or volume

• the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements

• travel by being carried on horseback

• process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space

• the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate

• act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time

• a mechanical device for gripping an object

• the act of catching an object with the hands

• take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of

• get hold of or seize quickly and easily

• make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand

• obtain illegally or unscrupulously

• take or grasp suddenly

• capture the attention or imagination of

• have as a part, be made up out of

• consider as part of something

• add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category

• allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of