Words and phrases that have a meaning related to degradation: (136 results)
Often used in the same context:
degeneration, erosion, decay, deterioration, denudation, depletion, impoverishment, dissipation, shrinkage, acidification, oxidation, soil erosion, fragmentation, attenuation, despoliation, destruction, eutrophication, oxidisation, dehumanization, disintegration, salination, buffering, marginalization, diminution, desiccation, sedimentation, encroachment, brutalisation, compaction, perturbation, deprivation, hydrologic cycle, leaching, homogenization, depravation, diminishment, nitrification, desertification, immiseration, deforestation, corrosiveness, impurity, exploitation, decimation, biodegradation, oxidization, pauperism, vasodilatation, equilibration, channelization, dessication, homogenisation, overexploitation, displacement, volatilization, dehumanisation, submergence, debilitation, nephron, feminization, leakage, atrophy, underdevelopment, pauperisation, catabolic, atomisation, intactness, denaturation, corrosion, hermaphroditism, stochasticity, impacts, impermeability, ecological, wastage, patchiness, permeation, disordering, coarsening, amelioration, ingress, biofouling, insolubility, blights, evaporation, brutalization, rhizosphere, gelation, scarring, embitterment, obsolescence, demagnetization, dilapidation, masculinisation, decomposition, aridity, deformation, ischaemia, toxicity, extirpation, alkalosis, osmotic pressure, degradations, destabilization, weakening, demoralization, alienation, disorganization, attrition, breakdown, debasement, disorientation, decline
More specific:
abasement, animalisation, animalization, barbarisation, barbarization, bastardisation, bastardization, corruption, deadening, degeneracy, depth, humbling, humiliation, impairment, popularisation, popularization, stultification, vulgarisation, vulgarization
Appears in the definition of:
cruel and unusual punishment, profanation
More general:
change of state
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— Adjectives for degradation: environmental, moral, thermal, microbial, enzymatic, further, rapid, oxidative, human, significant, proteolytic, more...
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