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Deteriorate

• Eat Away at Endless Time: a poem (5)

• A hurricane may do this to a beach

• Abrade

• Adversely affect, as one's confidence

• Alter, as a shoreline

• Batter a beach, perhaps

• Be slowly destroyed

• Become eaten away

• Become ground down

• Become less strong

• Become more rounded, maybe

• Become weatherworn

• Become worn down

• Blow away, maybe

• Blow away?

• Break down

• Break down over time

• Carve a canyon

• Cause a bank failure, perhaps

• Cause decay

• Cause to decay

• Cause to deteriorate

• Cause to vanish

• Chip away

• Chip away at

• Chip away at, as confidence

• Chip away, as support

• Corrode

• Create a canyon

• Create a gorge

• Create chasms

• Crumble

• Crumble away

• Crumble into the sea, as shoreline

• Crumble over time

• Crumble, as support

• Cut into

• Decrease gradually

• Decrease, as confidence

• Decrease, as popularity

• Decrease, as support

• Destroy bit by bit

• Destroy by degrees

• Destroy gradually

• Destroy over time

• Destroy slowly

• Destroy steadily

• Deteriorate slowly

• Deteriorate, as a coastline

• Deteriorate, in a way

• Develop ruts, say

• Diminish

• Diminish by degrees

• Diminish gradually

• Diminish naturally

• Diminish over time

• Diminish slowly

• Diminish, as support

• Diminish, as support in a poll

• Diminish, as trust

• Diminish, in a way

• Disappear bit by bit

• Disappear gradually

• Disappear slowly

• Disappear slowly but surely

• Disappear slowly, in a way

• Disassemble naturally

• Disintegrate

• Disintegrate slowly

• Displace over time, as soil

• Drop off

• Dwindle

• Dwindle, as public favor

• Dwindle, as support

• Eat

• Eat at

• Eat at the bank?

• Eat away

• Eat away (at)

• Eat away at slowly

• Eat away at the bank?

• Eat away at the beach?

• Eat off the land?

• Fade gradually

• Fail to hold up, as a bank

• Fall away

• Fall away, as support

• Fall off

• Fall off, as popularity

• Fall off, as support

• Form a gully

• Form by wearing away

• Frazzle

• Fret

• Get worn

• Give ground?

• Give way to wind and water

• Gnaw

• Go from rock to dust

• Gradually break down

• Gradually destroy

• Gradually destroy, as confidence

• Gradually destroy, as shoreline

• Gradually deteriorate

• Gradually remove

• Gradually wear away

• Grind away

• Grind down

• Lessen, as political support

• Lose as power

• Lose at the bank?

• Lose face?

• Lose ground

• Lose ground, literally

• Lose little by little

• Lose slowly

• Lose substance

• Lose support

• Lose topsoil

• Lose underpinnings

• Lose underpinnings, e.g.

• Make bank withdrawals?

• Make many small withdrawals at the bank?

• Make molehills out of mountains?

• Make smaller, in a way

• Molder

• Opposite of build up

• Opposite of strengthen

• Oxidize

• Partly eat away

• React to acid rain, perhaps

• Rub away

• Rub down

• Rub off

• Ruin the topsoil

• Rust

• Scrape away at

• Shorelines do it

• Show signs of weakening

• Shrink at the shore, maybe

• Shrink in increments

• Shrink slowly

• Siphon off, as support

• Slowly crumble

• Slowly destroy

• Slowly disintegrate

• Slowly lose ground

• Slowly reduce, as a cliff

• Slowly reduce, as a cliff face

• Slowly wear away

• Slowly wear away, as a cliff face

• Some shorelines do it

• Start to deteriorate

• Steadily reduce

• Steadily reduce, in a way

• Subject to ablation

• Subject to planation

• Succumb to time and tide

• Succumb to wind and water

• Take away little by little

• Trade center in India

• Undercut

• Undermine

• Undermine, as confidence

• Vanish gradually

• Vanish over time

• Wane, as support

• Wash away

• Wash away slowly

• Wash away, as a bank

• Wash away, as soil

• Wash out

• Waste away gradually

• Waste away in a way

• Weaken

• Weaken gradually

• Weaken, as confidence

• Wear

• Wear away

• Wear away by wind

• Wear away gradually

• Wear away over time

• Wear away, as a beach

• Wear away, as a coastline

• Wear away, as earth

• Wear away, as popularity

• Wear away, as rock

• Wear away, as soil

• Wear down

• Wear down gradually

• Wear down slowly

• Wear down, as by the action of wind or water

• Wear down, as confidence

• Wear down//Become weatherworn

• Wear gradually

• Wear in bad weather?

• Wear out

• Wear slowly

• Wear through weathering

• Wear, as by wind

• Wear, in a way

• Weather

• Weather away

• Weather gradually

• Weather, in a way

• Whittle away