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  • 41slip — ▪ I. slip slip 1 [slɪp] verb slipped PTandPPX slipping PRESPARTX [intransitive] to become worse or less or fall to a lower amount, standard etc than before: • There are fears that consumer confidence may be slipping. • Earnings per share slipped… …

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  • 42go downhill — To deteriorate (in health, prosperity or morality) • • • Main Entry: ↑down * * * go downhill phrase to get worse This area’s been going downhill for years. Thesaurus: to become worsesynonym Main entry …

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  • 43Edward Scissorhands — Infobox Film name = Edward Scissorhands director = Tim Burton producer = Denise Di Novi Tim Burton writer = Tim Burton (story) Caroline Thompson (story and screenplay) starring = Johnny Depp Winona Ryder Dianne Wiest Alan Arkin Anthony Michael… …

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  • 44I Feel Sick — Main character Devi (Top), Tenna Spooky (Bottom) I Feel Sick is a doubleshot , full color comic book written and drawn by the comic artist Jhonen Vasquez and colored by Rosearik Rikki Simons (who would later go on to do the voice of GIR in… …

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  • 45All the Newshounds Fit to Print — is the seventh compilation of comic strips of the webcomic Newshounds by Thomas K. Dye. The book covers the comics between 13 October 2003 and 8 December 2006. These were the last comics created in the first Newshounds series. Unlike the other… …

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  • 46decline — 1 noun (singular, uncountable) a gradual decrease in the quality, quantity, or importance of something (+ in): a sharp decline in profits | economic/moral etc decline: Economic decline is often tangled up with political turmoil. | fall/go into… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 47spiral — [ˈspaɪrəl] noun [C] I 1) a shape that looks like a set of circles and is made by one line curving around a central point 2) a situation that gets worse and worse the endless spiral of violence and hatred[/ex] spiral adj II (present participle… …

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  • 48impair — im•pair [[t]ɪmˈpɛər[/t]] v. t. to make or cause to become worse; weaken; damage: habits that impair one s health[/ex] • Etymology: 1250–1300; ME empairen to make worse < MF empeirer=em im +peirer to make worse < LL pējōrāre, v. der. of L… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 49pe|jo|rate — «PEE juh rayt», verb, rat|ed, rat|ing. –v.t. to make worse; cause to deteriorate; disparage. –v.i. to become worse. ╂[< Latin pejorāre (with English ate1) make worse < pejor worse] …

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  • 50Amyloid degeneration — Degeneration De*gen er*a tion, n. [Cf. F. d[ e]g[ e]n[ e]ration.] 1. The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. [1913 Webster] Our degeneration and apostasy …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English