All deteriorate synonyms

verb deteriorate

• decay — When something such as a dead body, a dead plant, or a tooth decays, it is gradually destroyed by a natural process.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• sink — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
• ebb — the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
• fall apart — physically: into pieces
• worsen — Make or become worse.
• disintegrate — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
• lessen — to become less.
• lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
• crumble — If something crumbles, or if you crumble it, it breaks into a lot of small pieces.
• undermine — to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
• regress — to move backward; go back.
• slide — to move along in continuous contact with a smooth or slippery surface: to slide down a snow-covered hill.
• degrade — Something that degrades someone causes people to have less respect for them.
• fade — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
• fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
• languish — to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
• depreciate — If something such as a currency depreciates or if something depreciates it, it loses some of its original value.
• weaken — to make weak or weaker.
• retrogress — to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition: to retrogress to infantilism.
• pervert — to affect with perversion.
• debilitate — If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
• impair — to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
• corrupt — Someone who is corrupt behaves in a way that is morally wrong, especially by doing dishonest or illegal things in return for money or power.
• rot — to undergo decomposition; decay.
• skid — a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
• debase — To debase something means to reduce its value or quality.
• injure — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
• descend — If you descend or if you descend a staircase, you move downwards from a higher to a lower level.
• deprave — Something that depraves someone makes them morally bad or evil.
• vitiate — to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
• mar — to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
• break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
• flag — flagstone (def 1).
• spoil — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
• adulterate — If something such as food or drink is adulterated, someone has made its quality worse by adding water or cheaper products to it.
• lapse — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
• corrode — If metal or stone corrodes, or is corroded, it is gradually destroyed by a chemical or by rust.
• retrograde — moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
• alloy — An alloy is a metal that is made by mixing two or more types of metal together.
• decompose — When things such as dead plants or animals decompose, or when something decomposes them, they change chemically and begin to decay.
• wane — to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
• degenerate — If you say that someone or something degenerates, you mean that they become worse in some way, for example weaker, lower in quality, or more dangerous.
• go to pieces — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
• go downhill — travel down a slope
• go to pot — a container of earthenware, metal, etc., usually round and deep and having a handle or handles and often a lid, used for cooking, serving, and other purposes.
• go to the dogs — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
• hit the skids — get into difficulties
• lose it — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.