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Aberration
noun · 78% connection
A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduction, better, worse, earth.
Aggravate
verb · 78% connection
To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduction, better, worse, earth.
Aggravating
adjective · 78% connection
Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduction, better, worse, earth.
Aggravation
noun · 78% connection
The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; somethi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduction, better, worse, earth.
Appair
v. t. & i. · 78% connection
To impair; to grow worse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduction, better, worse, earth.
Backwards
adverb · 78% connection
From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduction, better, worse, earth.
Better
adjective · 78% connection
Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduction, better, worse, earth.
Corrupt
adjective · 78% connection
Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt l…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduction, better, worse, earth.
Corruption
noun · 78% connection
The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduction, better, worse, earth.
Declension
noun · 78% connection
A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduction, better, worse, earth.
Decline
verb · 78% connection
A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduction, better, worse, earth.
Degeneracy
adjective · 78% connection
The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduction, better, worse, earth.
Degeneration
noun · 78% connection
The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduction, better, worse, earth.
Descent
noun · 78% connection
Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lowe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduction, better, worse, earth.
Deterioration
noun · 78% connection
The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduction, better, worse, earth.
Ebb
noun · 78% connection
The state or time of passing away; a falling from a better to a worse state; low state or condition; decline; decay.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduction, better, worse, earth.
Emend
verb · 78% connection
To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual cri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduction, better, worse, earth.
Equal
adjective · 78% connection
Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduction, better, worse, earth.
