Definition

1. Verb:

   • To decline or deteriorate: To gradually become weaker, worse, or less effective over a prolonged period.
   • To be in recession: Used primarily in economics to describe a period of significant decline in economic activity across the economy.

2. Noun:

   • Decline or deterioration: The process or state of becoming progressively worse.
   • Recession: A period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Nền kinh tế đang suy thoái. (The economy is declining / in recession.)
  • Sức khỏe của ông ấy suy thoái nhanh chóng. (His health deteriorated rapidly.)
• Noun:
  • Giai đoạn suy thoái kéo dài ba năm. (The period of recession lasted three years.)
  • Sự suy thoái về đạo đức là đáng lo ngại. (The moral decline is concerning.)

Advanced Usage

• "suy thoái kinh tế": economic recession.
  • Cuộc khủng hoảng dẫn đến suy thoái kinh tế nghiêm trọng. (The crisis led to a severe economic recession.)
• "suy thoái môi trường": environmental degradation.
  • Suy thoái môi trường đe dọa hệ sinh thái. (Environmental degradation threatens the ecosystem.)

Variants and Related Words

• Suy giảm (v): to diminish, to decrease (often less severe or broad than "suy thoái").
  • Sức ảnh hưởng của họ đang suy giảm. (Their influence is diminishing.)
• Khủng hoảng kinh tế (n): economic crisis (often more acute than a recession).

Synonyms

• Deteriorate: to become progressively worse.
• Decline: to decrease in quality, power, or vigor.
• Recede: to move back or away (used for economic activity).

Related Idioms

• "Suy thoái có chu kỳ": cyclical recession.
  • Các nhà kinh tế nghiên cứu hiện tượng suy thoái có chu kỳ. (Economists study the phenomenon of cyclical recession.)
• "Thoái trào": ebb, regression (a related, more literary term for decline).
  • Đó là thời kỳ thoái trào của nền văn minh. (That was a period of regression for the civilization.)

verb

1. retrograde