have seen better days
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
Roget 659:
unimproved
etc.
(improve)
etc.
658;
deteriorated
etc.
v.;
altered,
altered for the worse;
injured
etc.
v.;
sprung;
withering,
spoiling
etc.
v.;
on the wane,
on the decline;
tabid†;
degenerate;
marescent†;
worse;
the worse for,
all the worse for;
out of repair,
out of tune;
imperfect
etc.
651;
the worse for wear;
battered;
weathered,
weather-beaten;
stale,
passe,
shaken,
dilapidated,
frayed,
faded,
wilted,
shabby,
secondhand,
threadbare;
worn,
worn to a thread,
worn to a shadow,
worn to the stump,
worn to rags;
reduced,
reduced to a skeleton;
far gone;
tacky [U.S.].
decayed
etc.
v.;
moth-eaten,
worm-eaten;
mildewed,
rusty,
moldy,
spotted,
seedy,
time-worn,
moss-grown;
discolored;
effete,
wasted,
crumbling,
moldering,
rotten,
cankered,
blighted,
tainted;
depraved
etc.
(vicious)
945;
decrepid†,
decrepit;
broke,
busted,
broken,
out of commission,
hors de combat [Fr.],
out of action,
broken down;
done,
done for,
done up;
worn out,
used up,
finished;
beyond saving,
fit for the dust hole,
fit for the wastepaper basket,
past work
etc.
(useless)
645.
at a low ebb,
in a bad way,
on one's last legs;
undermined,
deciduous;
nodding to its fall
etc.
(destruction)
162;
tottering
etc.
(dangerous)
665;
past cure
etc.
(hopeless)
859;
fatigued
etc.
688;
retrograde
etc.
(retrogressive)
283;
deleterious
etc.
649.
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Roget 735:
be ill off
etc.
adj.;
go hard with;
fall on evil,
fall on evil days;
go on ill;
not prosper
etc.
734.
go downhill,
go to rack and ruin
etc.
(destruction)
162,
go to the dogs;
fall,
fall from one's high estate;
decay,
sink,
decline,
go down in the world;
have seen better days;
bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow to the bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave;
come to grief;
be all over,
be up with;
bring a wasp's nest about one's ears,
bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.
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Roget 804:
be poor
etc.
adj.;
want,
lack,
starve,
live from hand to mouth,
have seen better days,
go down in the world,
come upon the parish;
go to the dogs,
go to wrack and ruin;
not have a penny
etc.
(money)
800,
not have a shot in one's locker;
beg one's bread;
tirer le diable par la queue [Fr.];
run into debt
etc.
(debt)
806.
render poor
etc.
adj.;
impoverish;
reduce,
reduce to poverty;
pauperize,
fleece,
ruin,
bring to the parish.
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