Sunday, April 17, 2011

Pejorate

pe-jor-ate (pĭ-jôrˈāt)

verb
1. Make worse or decrease the value of.
Does painting barbies like zombies pejorate the brainlessness of the doll?
It doesn't seem to pejorate the marketability of such a doll. I wonder if Hasbro has thought of this.

Synonyms: impair, contaminate, blight, collapse, corrode, decline, decompose, defile, degenerate, depreciate disintegrate, dissolve, dwindle, fade, fail, worsen, lessen, molder, pollute, putrefy, putresce, reduce, rot, shrivel, sicken, sink, spoil, suppurate, turn, wane, waste away, weaken, wear away, wither.

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