Words that rhyme with downgrading

adj 1: blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors; "the blockading ships prevented delivery of munitions"

n 1: trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains [syn: braid, gold braid, braiding]

n 1: a protective covering that protects the outside of a building [syn: facing, cladding]

adj 1: harmful to the mind or morals; "corrupt judges and their corrupting influence"; "the vicious and degrading cult of violence" [syn: corrupting, degrading] 2: used of conduct; characterized by dishonor [syn: debasing, degrading]

n 1: weakening in force or intensity; "attenuation in the volume of the sound" [syn: attenuation, fading]

n 1: the act of arranging in a graduated series [syn: scaling, grading] 2: changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface [syn: grading, leveling] 3: evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score; "what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do" [syn: marking, grading, scoring]

adj 1: involving invasion or aggressive attack; "invasive war" [syn: incursive, invading, invasive]

n 1: goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment]

n 1: any material used especially to protect something [syn: packing material, packing, wadding] 2: the enclosure of something in a package or box [syn: packing, boxing] 3: carrying something in a pack on the back; "the backpacking of oxygen is essential for astronauts" [syn: packing, backpacking]

n 1: the act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it

adj 1: characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party" [syn: marauding, predatory, raiding]

n 1: graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting 2: a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades [syn: shading, blending]

n 1: buying or selling securities or commodities

n 1: walking with your feet in shallow water