What's another word for deteriorate?

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This isfrom Roget's:
1. To become or cause to become rotten or unsound:
break down, decay, decompose, disintegrate, molder, putrefy, rot, spoil, taint, turn.
Idioms: go bad, go to pot, go to seed.
See better, thrive.

2. To become lower in quality, character, or condition:
atrophy, decline, degenerate, descend, retrograde, sink, worsen.
Idioms: go bad, go to pot, go to seed, go to the dogs.
See better.

3. To lose strength or power:
decline, degenerate, fade, fail, flag2, languish, sink, wane, waste (away), weaken.
Informal: fizzle (out).
Idioms: go downhill, hit the skids.
See increase, strong.

-MM
disintegrate?
Fall apart
Decline
Erode
Dissolve
Collapse
Degrade.
First definitive word that comes up is decay, but primarily it is a decline in value.
for all of you physicists, don't forget "entropy" the heat death of the universe
rot, spoil, degenerate.

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