| 单词 | on the downgrade |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the downgrade 2. A decline in morals, status, prosperity, etc. Frequently with the, esp. in on the downgrade: declining in terms of morals, status, etc. (cf. on the decline at decline n. 1a). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition rureOE ebbingc1200 fallc1225 declinea1327 downfallingc1330 downfalla1400 fall of mana1400 wanea1400 ruinc1405 wrack1426 inclinationc1450 declination1533 labefactation1535 ebb1555 falling off1577 declining1581 inclining1590 declension1604 downset1608 neck-breaka1658 overseta1658 lapsing1665 reducement1667 lapse1680 labefaction1792 downshift1839 subsidence1839 downgrade1857 downturn1858 downslide1889 downswing1922 turn-down1957 tail-off1975 the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [noun] damage1300 declinea1327 ebbc1400 mischange1561 dotage1606 failancea1627 fallback1830 downgrade1857 slide1884 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] degeneration?1481 declining1526 declination1533 depravation1561 villainy1564 declension1597 depravedness1623 decadency1632 degenerateness1640 depravity1643 depravement1645 degradation1663 degeneracy1664 degenerousness1678 marasmus1681 debasednessa1720 decadencea1734 demoralization1797 downgrade1857 decadentism1949 1857 Daily Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 9 Oct. His bad management has sent him on the down grade to obscurity. 1872 Newton Kansan 19 Sept. 4/3 Greeleyism has struck the down grade. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 19 Apr. 3/2 A study in the down-grade of a village girl from seduction..to prostitution. 1901 G. B. Shaw in Candid Friend 11 May 57/2 To be on the down grade from the haute bourgeoisie and the landed gentry. 1953 W. S. Burroughs Let. July (1993) 173 As a matter of fact the whole region is on the down grade. 2003 W. Thabit How East N.Y. became Ghetto iv. 64 Livonia Avenue, another shopping street in the past..was also on the downgrade. < as lemmas |
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