Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To diminish or impair in quality, character, or value.
- intransitive verb To grow worse; degenerate.
- intransitive verb To weaken or disintegrate; decay.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make worse; reduce in quality; lower the essential character or constitution of: as, to
deteriorate a race of men or their condition. - To grow worse; be or become impaired in quality; degenerate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
- intransitive verb To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
make worse ; to make inferior in quality or value; toimpair . - verb intransitive To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to
degenerate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb grow worse
- verb become worse or disintegrate
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The dirt heats up earlier in deteriorate as good as stays warmer for longer during a finish of a season, to illustrate extending a altogether flourishing window.
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On a alternative hand, if we wish to buy shad in deteriorate (March-May) as good as prepare it during home, a place to get it is in Bridgeton.
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The dirt heats up earlier in deteriorate as good as stays warmer for longer during a finish of a season, to illustrate extending a altogether flourishing window.
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On a alternative hand, if we wish to buy shad in deteriorate (March-May) as good as prepare it during home, a place to get it is in Bridgeton.
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One area in which economic change has caused values to deteriorate is business, Clive Crook argues.
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One area in which economic change has caused values to deteriorate is business, Clive Crook argues.
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They should be saving snakes, not the fifth syllable of deteriorate, which isn't going to keep vermin under control in any paddy fields.
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His economy is continuing to deteriorate, which is a big part of the reason that we've seen all the outflow of migrants over the last few weeks.
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Moreover: The theory of equality in the long run would seem to require that some deteriorate, which is extremely unlikely, in view of the fact that the normal law of God's universe is advancement.
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A net 58% expect business conditions overall to deteriorate, which is up from 44% last month.
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