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deteriorating
Synonyms and Antonyms of deteriorating
- the garden slowly deteriorated after months of neglect
abating, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, receding, waning
breaking down, corrupting, decomposing, degrading, dilapidating, disintegrating, moldering, putrefying
drooping, failing, falling, flagging, lagging, languishing, running down, sagging, slipping, wasting (away), weakening, wilting
- childish name-calling that merely deteriorates what should be a serious discussion on an important issue
befouling, begriming, contaminating, defiling, diluting, dirtying, polluting, tainting, thinning, watering down, weakening
disgracing, dishonoring, humbling, humiliating, shaming, taking down
blemishing, damaging, defacing, destroying, flawing, harming, hurting, impairing, marring, ruining, spoiling, staining, tarnishing, wrecking
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