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downgrade(adjective, inferior, depressed, downward)
4
drooping(adjective, weakening, fading, wearying, flagging)
4
dwindling(noun, adjective, cut, decline, reduction)
4
languishing(verb, weakening, fading, wearying, flagging)
4
lessening(noun, adjective, cut, decline, reduction)
4
lowering(verb, adjective, shrinking, falling, decreasing)
4
moribund(adjective, disease, dying)
4
refusal(noun, disapproval, rejection, refusal)
4
refusing(verb, refusing)
4
regressing(verb, deteriorating, regressing)
4
rejection(noun, disapproval, refusal)
4
retrograde(adjective, reverting)
4
subsiding(verb, adjective, lessening, shrinking, lowering)
4
weak(adjective, mean, bad, disease, delicate)
3
abstaining(verb, avoiding)
3
decadent(adjective, corrupt)
3
decrepit(adjective, disease, age)
3
denying(verb, refusing)
3
depressed(adjective, inferior, downward)
3
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