All devolution synonyms

noun devolution

• ebbing — the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
• cropper — a person who cultivates or harvests a crop
• dwindling — to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away: His vast fortune has dwindled away.
• atrophy — If a muscle or other part of the body atrophies, it decreases in size or strength, often as a result of an illness.
• declination — the angular distance, esp in degrees, of a star, planet, etc, from the celestial equator measured north (positive) or south (negative) along the great circle passing through the celestial poles and the body
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• depravation — to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
• appointment — The appointment of a person to a particular job is the choice of that person to do it.
• reference — pointer
• investiture — the act or process of investing.
• ordination — Ecclesiastical. the act or ceremony of ordaining.
• charge — If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
• conveyance — A conveyance is a vehicle.
• consignment — A consignment of goods is a load that is being delivered to a place or person.
• mandate — a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
• installation — something installed, as machinery or apparatus placed in position or connected for use.
• trust — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
• nomination — an act or instance of nominating, especially to office: The floor is open for nomination of candidates for the presidency.
• deputation — A deputation is a small group of people who have been asked to speak to someone on behalf of a larger group of people, especially in order to make a complaint.
• authorization — an authorizing or being authorized
• conveying — to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.
• relegation — to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.
• committal — Committal is the process of officially sending someone to a prison or to hospital.
• transference — the act or process of transferring.
• commissioning — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
• ruination — the act or state of ruining or the state of being ruined.
• down — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
• discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
• comeuppance — If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.
• deluge — A deluge of things is a large number of them which arrive or happen at the same time.
• flood — a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
• decadence — deterioration, esp of morality or culture; decay; degeneration
• cloudburst — A cloudburst is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain.
• bane — The bane of someone or the bane of someone's life is something that frequently makes them feel unhappy or annoyed.
• storm — Theodore Woldsen [tey-aw-dawr vawlt-suh n] /ˈteɪ ɔˌdɔr ˈvɔlt sən/ (Show IPA), 1817–88, German poet and novelist.
• retrogression — the act of retrogressing; movement backward.
• sybaritism — (usually lowercase) a person devoted to luxury and pleasure.
• on the skids — a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
• decentralization — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
• decentralisation — Alternative spelling of decentralization.
• delegation — A delegation is a group of people who have been sent somewhere to have talks with other people on behalf of a larger group of people.
• transfer — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
• federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
• apportioning — Present participle of apportion.
• consigning — Present participle of consign.
• deputising — to appoint as deputy.
• lessening — to become less.
• backsliding — If you accuse someone of backsliding, you disapprove of them because they have failed to do something they promised or agreed to do, or have started again doing something undesirable that they had previously stopped doing.
• ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• referring — to direct for information or anything required: He referred me to books on astrology.