descend intosomething
phrasal verbwithdescendverbuk/dɪˈsend/us/dɪˈsend/
formalIf asituationdescendsinto aparticularstate, itbecomesworse:
Thedemonstrationsin thecapitalrapidlydescendedintoanarchy.
Deteriorating and making worse
- add
- admin
- aggravate
- backslide
- be (all) downhillidiom
- debase
- deterioration
- devaluation
- devalue
- disintegrate
- dog
- downgrade
- one step forward, two steps backidiom
- regress
- regression
- regressive
- relapse
- retrograde
- worse
- worsen