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descent into something
collocation
a change in someone's behaviour, or in a situation, from good to bad: 堕落，蜕变
It is a novel about a great man's descent into madness.
Without outside intervention, the country's descent into chaos will continue.
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descent
His descent into crime was rapid.他很快就堕落到犯罪的地步。
He blamed the drug for his son's descent into violence and crime.
A descent into addiction followed and he took his own life aged only 27.
Burke anticipated the descent into anarchy and tyranny followed by despotism.
She chronicled her own descent into depression.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Deteriorating and making worse
add
admin
aggravate
backslide
be downhillidiom
debase
deterioration
devaluation
devalue
disintegrate
dog
downgrade
regress
regression
regressive
regressively
retrograde
wear thinidiom
worse
worsen
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