We have nouns, single words, for things getting better: improvement, advance. But I don't know a lone word--not an expression, not an idiom--for things getting worse, especially when the worsening is a result of making a so-called improvement, and I think we need one. I propose d e p r o v e m e n t for the noun, d e p r o v e for the verb.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016
You need this word, part 4
We have nouns, single words, for things getting better: improvement, advance. But I don't know a lone word--not an expression, not an idiom--for things getting worse, especially when the worsening is a result of making a so-called improvement, and I think we need one. I propose d e p r o v e m e n t for the noun, d e p r o v e for the verb.
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