different between downturn vs downgrade

English

Etymology

down- +? turn

Noun

downturn (plural downturns)

1. A downward trend, or the beginnings of one; a decline.

Antonyms

• upturn

Translations

Verb

downturn (third-person singular simple present downturns, present participle downturning, simple past and past participle downturned)

1. To turn downwards
2. To decline

Anagrams

• turn down, turndown

English

Etymology

From down- +? grade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da?n???e?d/
• Hyphenation: down?grade

Noun

downgrade (plural downgrades)

1. A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.
2. A downhill gradient on a road or railway.

Verb

downgrade (third-person singular simple present downgrades, present participle downgrading, simple past and past participle downgraded)

1. To place lower in position.

2. To reduce in complexity, or remove unnecessary parts; to dumb down.
3. (transitive) To disparage.
   • 1981, King Royer, Construction Manager in the 80's (page 278)

     Without downgrading my friends in the Building Trades, driving a nail or sawing a board is relatively simple.

4. (meteorology) to reduce the official estimate of a storm's intensity.
5. (computing) To revert software back to an older version.

Synonyms

• degrade
• demote
• defame
• reduce
• revert
• ruin

Translations

References

• “downgrade”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• dead wrong, dead-wrong, dog warden