3
retroflexion(back, slow, backward, reverse direction)
3
retrogressive(back, slow, backward, reverse direction)
3
retroversion(back, slow, backward, reverse direction)
3
retrusion(back, slow, backward, reverse direction)
3
reverse of fortune(back, slow, backward, reverse direction)
3
reversion to type(back, slow, backward, reverse direction)
3
severe check(back, slow, backward, reverse direction)
3
spoiling(noun, decline, decay, degeneration, weakening)
3
sternway(back, slow, backward, reverse direction)
3
turnaround(back, slow, backward, reverse direction)
3
vestige(back, slow, backward, reverse direction)
3
vitiation(noun, drop, decline, abuse, decay)
3
wear(noun, use, disintegration, friction, abrasion)
2
abatement(noun, drop, fall, decrease, retreat)
2
anticlimax(decrease, nonincrease)
2
bankruptcy(noun, decline, ruin, defeat, collapse)
2
consumption(decline, disease, collapse, wear, impairment)
2
deadening
2
decrement(decrease, nonincrease)
2
demolition(noun, collapse, extinction, destruction, wreck)
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