worsening

worsening
Synonyms and related words:
about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, aggravation, alteration, amelioration, amplification, annoyance, apostasy, augmentation, betterment, break, change, change of heart, changeableness, coming apart, constructive change, contentiousness, continuity, conversion, cracking, crumbling, decadent, declining, deepening, defection, degenerate, degeneration, degenerative change, deliberate aggravation, deteriorating, deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, disintegrating, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, draining, drooping, dwindling, ebbing, effete, embittering, embitterment, enhancement, enlargement, exacerbation, exasperation, fading, failing, falling, fitting, flagging, flip-flop, fragmenting, going to pieces, gradual change, heightening, improvement, increase, intensification, irritation, languishing, magnification, marcescent, melioration, mitigation, modification, modulation, overthrow, pining, provocation, qualification, radical change, re-creation, realignment, redesign, reform, reformation, regressive, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restructuring, retrograde, retrogressive, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, sharpening, shift, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, souring, subsiding, sudden change, switch, tabetic, total change, transition, turn, turnabout, upheaval, variation, variety, violent change, waning, wasting, wilting, withering

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