be eaten away
abate, ablate, bate, consume, corrode, crumble, decline, decrease, die away, diminish, dive, drop, drop off, dwindle, ebb,
benevolent despotism - absolutism, despotism, dictatorship, monarchy, tyranny
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persecuted - badgered, baited, bedevilled, beset, bugged, devilled, dogged, fretted, harassed, harried, haunted, heckled, hectored, hounded, needled,
shadowing - ambuscade, ambush, blackening, blind, blocking the light, booby trap, bugging, chase, chasing, cloak-and-dagger work, clouding, counter-espionage, counter-intelligence, darkening, dimming,
few - cursory, footling, handful, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, least, little, littlest, low, lowest, meagre, miniature, minim, minimum,
err - backslide, be in error, be mistaken, be wrong, blunder, bungle, commit sin, degenerate, deviate, do amiss, do wrong, drift, fall, fall into error, go adrift,
straight-thinking - down-to-earth, earthy, hard-headed, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, rational, realist, realistic, reasonable, sane, scientific, secular, sensible, sound,
scapegoat - burnt offering, collection, drink offering, dupe, fall guy, front, goat, gull, heave offering, hecatomb, holocaust, human sacrifice, immolation, incense, infanticide,
neutralness - chill, coldness, contemplation, dormancy, idleness, immobility, inactivity, indolence, inertia, meditation, neutrality, non-resistance, non-violence, pacifism, paralysis,
cycloid personality - complexion, extroversion, humour, introversion ,
counterfeited - affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, coloured, counterfeit, distorted, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake,
persecuted - badgered, baited, bedevilled, beset, bugged, devilled, dogged, fretted, harassed, harried, haunted, heckled, hectored, hounded, needled,
shadowing - ambuscade, ambush, blackening, blind, blocking the light, booby trap, bugging, chase, chasing, cloak-and-dagger work, clouding, counter-espionage, counter-intelligence, darkening, dimming,
few - cursory, footling, handful, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, least, little, littlest, low, lowest, meagre, miniature, minim, minimum,
err - backslide, be in error, be mistaken, be wrong, blunder, bungle, commit sin, degenerate, deviate, do amiss, do wrong, drift, fall, fall into error, go adrift,
straight-thinking - down-to-earth, earthy, hard-headed, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, rational, realist, realistic, reasonable, sane, scientific, secular, sensible, sound,
scapegoat - burnt offering, collection, drink offering, dupe, fall guy, front, goat, gull, heave offering, hecatomb, holocaust, human sacrifice, immolation, incense, infanticide,
neutralness - chill, coldness, contemplation, dormancy, idleness, immobility, inactivity, indolence, inertia, meditation, neutrality, non-resistance, non-violence, pacifism, paralysis,
cycloid personality - complexion, extroversion, humour, introversion ,
counterfeited - affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, coloured, counterfeit, distorted, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake,