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deteriorate English

Meaning deteriorate meaning

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deteriorate Verb

— To deteriorate, something will slowly lose a certain value over a period of time. Food is kept cold in a refrigerator so it will not deteriorate or spoil. — If something deteriorates, it gets worse. His attention to the teacher deteriorated as he got sleepier. The political situation deteriorated after the soldiers attacked the president's palace.

deteriorate

— verb become worse or disintegrate His mind deteriorated — verb (= devolve, degenerate) grow worse Her condition deteriorated Conditions in the slums degenerated The discussion devolved into a shouting match

Synonyms deteriorate synonyms

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deteriorate English » English

worsen degenerate become worse decline get worse weaken decay spoil damage impair wither ruin languish subside rot grow weak go bad fall apart fade drop droop diminish decompose wilt waste away take a turn for the worse shrivel shrink sag retrograde metamorphosis grow worse go wrong flag fail dry out disintegrate devolve deterioration decrease corrupt collapse become weaker atrophy aggravate worse worm-eaten wear out wear away waste

Topics deteriorate topics

What do people use deteriorate to talk about?
Universe, creation Sky

Weather
Physical actions

Break, wear out
States Quality Good Better

Worse

Conjugation deteriorate conjugation

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deteriorate · verb

Examples deteriorate examples

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Simple sentences

If Tom doesn't take the prescribed medicine, his state of health might deteriorate.
The situation may deteriorate at any time.
Chopin's health continued to deteriorate.
Tom's health started to deteriorate after the death of his beloved wife, Mary.

Movie subtitles

Why has the ioniser been allowed to deteriorate to danger level?
And his condition does nothing but deteriorate.
It hasn't been in the atmosphere long enough to deteriorate.
Then they just let it deteriorate, while yelling that management's offer was too low.
Ship's systems continue to deteriorate. oh ya.
In a few days, it'll succeed. then the brain will begin to deteriorate, decay, and finally. rot to nothing.
It's hard to accept that it's not only others, but ourselves as well, that deteriorate faster than we want to believe.
Well, it means that your photocopy twin will deteriorate and expire after a maximum life of 1 0 or 1 1 minutes.
Component, therefore, unstable and liable to deteriorate.
Some materials deteriorate, depending on what it is.
But society will deteriorate.
Captain, the freighter's orbit continues to deteriorate.
I refuse to just watch you deteriorate.
You can fix a fragment of a piece, but it will deteriorate a second later. because what it was connected to has been ignored.
Well, I'm not just gonna sit around here and deteriorate. Why not? I've been doing it for years.
I've devoted several years of my life to our intelligence organizations and it pains me greatly to see them deteriorate to their present level.
All we can do is wait for the situation to deteriorate.
You and your brother are landlords of over 50 buildings which you allow to deteriorate into hellholes while you guys get rich charging ridiculous rents!
When I was. young...l remember watching my. grandfather deteriorate from a powerful, intelligent figure to a. frail wisp of a man, who could barely make his own way home.
We think a molecular-reversion field caused the ship to deteriorate.
Everything could deteriorate if we don't stabilize for humidity.
First of all you allow this house to deteriorate into a village slum. Then you turn it into a lodging house, and now this: a huckster's enterprise!
Don't deteriorate the dresses. they are not yours!
The men are unhappy, morale is beginning to deteriorate.
The satellite's trajectory is continuing to deteriorate, Captain.
The corticospinal tract has continued to deteriorate over the last 72 hours despite CPK enzymatic therapy.
Do you know what it's like to see your son deteriorate?
The what? It would be against everything I stand for to let this deteriorate into an exercise in legal minutia.
Your condition will deteriorate over time.
When? Without access to a sarcophagus, the Goa'uld body will continue to deteriorate.
Seven, if you continue to exert yourself, your condition will only deteriorate more rapidly.
When does my administration completely deteriorate into the Third Reich?

News and current affairs

Will America really let its public infrastructure continue to deteriorate?
As for fiscal policy, it is already in high gear and needs gradual tightening over several years, lest already troubling government-debt levels deteriorate even faster.
But the Bush administration failed to control rioting, disbanded the Iraqi army, and allowed the security situation to deteriorate.
It could well deteriorate into that; the potential is there.
If we persevere on our current course, the situation will continue to deteriorate.
Finally, and just as importantly, governments must indicate that, if conditions deteriorate, further fiscal expansion will be implemented.
Relations between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei continue to deteriorate, while tensions are growing within the Revolutionary Guard.
Sociopolitical conditions in developing countries where demographic growth outpaces economic growth--the situation throughout the Middle East and North Africa--are bound to deteriorate rapidly in the years ahead.
Much economic research shows that job skills deteriorate the longer one is away from work; so retraining, information, and re-entry programs are very important.
As Europe learned long ago, hardship increases with the length of unemployment, as job skills and prospects deteriorate and savings gets wiped out.
If a country's terms of trade (the price of its exports) deteriorate and a large recession persists for a long time, its government's revenue base may shrink and its debt burden may become excessive.
The main question about economic policy in Putin's third term, then, is how fast it will deteriorate.
Our knowledge and understanding of the rest of the world continues to deteriorate; on many counts, we lack any system of foreign policy planning and forecasting.
Moreover, if conditions in the eurozone continue to deteriorate, Asia could be more severely affected.
If the situation in Europe continues to deteriorate, China's growth will be dragged down.
In fact, the latest forecast reflects an even worse outcome for France and Italy this year than originally promised, with France's deficit set to increase slightly for 2015 and Italy's cyclically adjusted deficit expected to deteriorate.
BERLIN - Will the eurozone crisis end in 2013, or will it drag on throughout the year, and perhaps even deteriorate anew?
Third, China's financial stability and fiscal position may deteriorate in the medium term.
Indeed, Musharraf might be compelled to impose emergency rule again, as he did in November, should Pakistan's stability further deteriorate.
Bilateral relations began to deteriorate when Putin blamed the US - and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in particular - for supporting the thousands of Russians who protested his return to the presidency in December 2011.
Now that the US is producing massive amounts of low-price natural gas and ethane, Saudi Arabia's competitive advantage - and market share - is beginning to deteriorate.

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