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Degradation :: Degradation (n.) A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc..

Regression :: Regression (n.) The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation.

Descent :: Descent (n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.

Retrogradation :: Retrogradation (n.) The state of being retrograde; decline.

Remove :: Remove (n.) The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year..

Retrogression :: Retrogression (n.) The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation..

Adultery :: Adultery (n.) Injury; degradation; ruin.

Degradation :: Degradation (n.) The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement..

Disgradation :: Disgradation (n.) Degradation; a stripping of titles and honors.

Antecedence :: Antecedence (n.) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.

Mode :: Mode (n.) Variety; gradation; degree.

Drawplate :: Drawplate (n.) A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated..

Gradation :: Gradation (v. t.) To form with gradations.

Fine :: Fine (a.) To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually..

Gradation :: Gradation (n.) A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing..

Scale :: Scale (n.) Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being..

Shade :: Shade (v. t.) To mark with gradations of light or color.

Self-abasement :: Self-abasement (n.) Degradation of one's self by one's own act.

Wretch :: Wretch (v. t.) One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch..

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