grow+worse
31regress — Synonyms and related words: about face, advance, ascend, back, back up, backing, backset, backslide, backsliding, backward motion, backward step, budge, change, change place, circle, climb, cock, come after, come last, degenerate, descend,… …
32relapse — Synonyms and related words: about face, apostasy, backing, backset, backslide, backsliding, backward motion, backward step, cock, decline, degenerate, degeneration, deteriorate, deterioration, disenchantment, disimprove, fade, fading, fail,… …
33retrograde — Synonyms and related words: aft, after, aftermost, atavistic, back, backslide, backward, cock, coming apart, cracking, crumbling, decadent, decline, declining, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, deteriorating, disimprove, disintegrate,… …
34retrogress — Synonyms and related words: advance, ascend, back, back up, backslide, budge, change, change place, circle, climb, cock, come after, come last, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, disimprove, ebb, fall astern, fall back, fall behind, flow, follow,… …
35sicken — Synonyms and related words: OD, affect, afflict, appall, be brought down, be felled, be struck down, be traumatized, break out, catch, catch cold, collapse, come down with, contract, debilitate, degenerate, derange, deteriorate, devitalize,… …
36slacken — Synonyms and related words: abate, allay, alleviate, anesthetize, appease, arrest, assuage, attemper, attenuate, backpedal, backwater, bank the fire, bate, benumb, block, blunt, bog down, bottle up, brake, chasten, check, clip the wings, come… …
37slip back — Synonyms and related words: backslide, cock, degenerate, deteriorate, disimprove, fall, fall again into, fall astern, fall back, fall behind, fall from grace, get behind, get worse, go backwards, go behind, grow worse, have a relapse, jerk back,… …
38degenerate — I. v. n. Deteriorate, decline, decay, become worse, grow worse, fall off, run down, become enfeebled or impaired or perverted. II. a. Inferior, mean, base, corrupt, fallen, degenerated, decayed, in decadence …
39deteriorate — I. v. a. Impair, degrade, debase, vitiate, make worse. II. v. n. Degenerate, decline, become impaired, grow worse …
40de|te|ri|o|rism — «dih TIHR ee uh RIHZ uhm», noun. the doctrine that the general tendency of all things is to grow worse. ╂[< Latin dēterior worse + English ism] …
