degradation

There are always examples of degradation, but there are very few examples of ecosystems left that are that pristine.

Digestion is a technical term which relates the mechanical, enzymatic, and chemical degradation of food.

“Since this past November, you have seen the slow and steady drumbeat of degradation,” Steele says.

And this of course raises the specter of Republican lies that make their own contribution to the degradation of public discourse.

So it is with Just Send Me Word, a heroic love story amid the squalor and degradation of the Gulag.

It all charmed him inexpressibly, so that he realised—yes, in a sense—the degradation of his twenty years' absorption in business.

But Weirmarsh, with his innate cunning, presented to him a picture of exposure and degradation which held him horrified.

Come to our aid then; the morning of our Redemption from degradation, adorns the horizon.

Raise the mothers above the level of degradation, and the offspring is elevated with them.

He watches the budding of evil instincts, the ignoble habits idly acquired in degradation.