The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word WEAR which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2019.
Deterioration crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| WEAR | 43 % | 4 |
| ROT | 29 % | 3 |
| IMPAIRMENT | 7 % | 10 |
| DRYROT | 7 % | 6 |
| ENTROPY | 7 % | 7 |
| DECADENCE | 7 % | 9 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Deterioration
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- worsening
- impairment
- decline in quality
- degeneration
- worsen
- degrading
- weakening
- degradation
- devastation
- loss
- depreciation
- damage
Crossword Answer definitions
WEAR noun- (in combination) clothing
- Damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time
- Fashion
- To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
- To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
- To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
- (with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
- To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
- To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
- To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
- To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
- (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
- (of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
- To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
- To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
- To defend; protect.
- To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
- To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
- An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.
- A fence placed across a river to catch fish.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result WEAR
- Tear's partner
- Erode
- Have on
- Rub down
- Everyday use
- Become threadbare
- Prove durable
- Time's sign?
- Tire usage
- Apparel
More clues leading to the result ROT
More clues leading to the result IMPAIRMENT
More clues leading to the result DRYROT
- Timber decay
- Hidden decay
- Problem for timber
- Timber fungus
- Timber problem
- Deterioration caused by fungi
- Problem prevented by creosote
- Wood woe
- Problem for wooden ships
- Possible problem with a wooden house
More clues leading to the result ENTROPY
- Thermodynamic disorganization
- Tendency towards chaos
- Systemic randomness measure
- Degradation of the universe's energy
- Scientific measure of disorder
- Measure of the disorder in a system
- Tendency toward disorder
- Concept in thermodynamics
- Thermodynamics concept
- Subject of the second law of thermodynamics