Deteriorate
verb
To become worse or less in quality or value over a period of time.
The weather is expected to deteriorate over the weekend.
Often appears as...
- deteriorate rapidly
- deteriorate over time
verb
To make something worse.
Not eating properly will deteriorate your health.
Often appears as...
- deteriorate physical health
- deteriorate mental health
verb
To become worse or less in quality or value over a period of time.
The weather is expected to deteriorate over the weekend.
Often appears as...
- deteriorate rapidly
- deteriorate over time
verb
To make something worse.
Not eating properly will deteriorate your health.
Often appears as...
- deteriorate physical health
- deteriorate mental health
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Gradual Decline
Use 'deteriorate' when something gradually gets worse over time, rather than suddenly.
His handwriting deteriorated as he grew older.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
The word 'deteriorate' carries a negative meaning, implying a downward trend or decay.
Public trust in the government has deteriorated.
Pro Tip 3/3Without Cause
Use 'deteriorate' when explaining that something is getting worse without stating the cause.
The ancient ruins are deteriorating with time.
Pro Tip 1/3Gradual Decline
Use 'deteriorate' when something gradually gets worse over time, rather than suddenly.
His handwriting deteriorated as he grew older.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
The word 'deteriorate' carries a negative meaning, implying a downward trend or decay.
Public trust in the government has deteriorated.
Pro Tip 3/3Without Cause
Use 'deteriorate' when explaining that something is getting worse without stating the cause.
The ancient ruins are deteriorating with time.
Pro Tip 1/3Gradual Decline
Use 'deteriorate' when something gradually gets worse over time, rather than suddenly.
His handwriting deteriorated as he grew older.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
The word 'deteriorate' carries a negative meaning, implying a downward trend or decay.
Public trust in the government has deteriorated.
Pro Tip 3/3Without Cause
Use 'deteriorate' when explaining that something is getting worse without stating the cause.
The ancient ruins are deteriorating with time.
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Why bats don't get sick...
which can fatally disrupt hibernation and deteriorate wing tissue. These conditions prevent bats from performing critical roles in their ecosystems, like helping with pollination and seed dispersal, and consuming pests and insects.
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Go to umpire school PIPE...
situation very important in umpiring how to manage a game so that it will continue even over the blips and bumps that are bound to come up that it will come up without deteriorating into total chaos these are very important skills
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12 truths I learned from...
So I asked some sober friends for help, and I turned to a higher power. One acronym for God is the "gift of desperation," G-O-D, or as a sober friend put it, by the end I was deteriorating faster than I could lower my standards.
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Isaac Lidsky: What...
but you experience it passively as a direct representation of the world around you. You create your own reality, and you believe it. I believed mine until it broke apart. The deterioration of my eyes shattered the illusion.
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The voices in my head PIPE...
and incapable of establishing any kind of peace or reconciliation. Two years later, and the deterioration was dramatic. By now, I had the whole frenzied terrifying voices, grotesque visions, bizarre, intractable delusions.
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My stroke of insight PIPE...
And in the course of four hours, I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information. On the morning of the hemorrhage, I could not walk, talk, read, write or recall any of my life.
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Why do our bodies age? -...
plus mitochondria regulate many different cell activities and play an important role in programmed cell death. If mitochondrial function declines, then cells and, later on, whole organs, deteriorate, too.
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How to green the world's...
and no sooner did we remove the hunting, drum-beating people to protect the animals, than the land began to deteriorate, as you see in this park that we formed. Now, no livestock were involved,
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Hitler's Death PIPE...
Hitler's physical condition in the last months of his life was according to all accounts of people who saw him deteriorating quite rapidly he almost certainly had Parkinson's disease he was
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How does hibernation...
which means that researchers could study hibernating mammals to see how their unique control of physiology might help humans. Understanding how hibernators deal with reduced blood flow could lead to better treatments for protecting the brain during a stroke. Figuring out how these animals avoid muscle deterioration
Video examples
Why bats don't get sick...
which can fatally disrupt hibernation and deteriorate wing tissue. These conditions prevent bats from performing critical roles in their ecosystems, like helping with pollination and seed dispersal, and consuming pests and insects.
Video examples
Go to umpire school PIPE...
situation very important in umpiring how to manage a game so that it will continue even over the blips and bumps that are bound to come up that it will come up without deteriorating into total chaos these are very important skills
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12 truths I learned from...
So I asked some sober friends for help, and I turned to a higher power. One acronym for God is the "gift of desperation," G-O-D, or as a sober friend put it, by the end I was deteriorating faster than I could lower my standards.
Video examples
Isaac Lidsky: What...
but you experience it passively as a direct representation of the world around you. You create your own reality, and you believe it. I believed mine until it broke apart. The deterioration of my eyes shattered the illusion.
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The voices in my head PIPE...
and incapable of establishing any kind of peace or reconciliation. Two years later, and the deterioration was dramatic. By now, I had the whole frenzied terrifying voices, grotesque visions, bizarre, intractable delusions.
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My stroke of insight PIPE...
And in the course of four hours, I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information. On the morning of the hemorrhage, I could not walk, talk, read, write or recall any of my life.
Video examples
Why do our bodies age? -...
plus mitochondria regulate many different cell activities and play an important role in programmed cell death. If mitochondrial function declines, then cells and, later on, whole organs, deteriorate, too.
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How to green the world's...
and no sooner did we remove the hunting, drum-beating people to protect the animals, than the land began to deteriorate, as you see in this park that we formed. Now, no livestock were involved,
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Hitler's Death PIPE...
Hitler's physical condition in the last months of his life was according to all accounts of people who saw him deteriorating quite rapidly he almost certainly had Parkinson's disease he was
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Mickalene Thomas
American Artist
When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and death in front of you, and you witness seeing someone deteriorating in front of you - it's an overwhelming experience. If you don't learn from that, I don't know what else you're gonna learn.
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Mario Teguh
Indonesian Businessman
Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.
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Warren Cuccurullo
American Musician
I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
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Fidel Castro
Statesman
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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Ronaldo
Brazilian Athlete
I feel less energetic; I get pains. My quality of life has deteriorated, and it takes me longer to recover from any form of physical activity.
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P. G. Wodehouse
English Writer
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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Machine Gun Kelly
American Musician
Every night, we put on shows that are deteriorating our bodies' life span... we don't do it for it all to be in vain.
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Oswald Spengler
German Philosopher
If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
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Richard Platt
British Writer
Our voices need to be raised in unison against the deterioration of our culture.
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Charles Horton Cooley
American Sociologist
To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
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Mickalene Thomas
American Artist
When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and death in front of you, and you witness seeing someone deteriorating in front of you - it's an overwhelming experience. If you don't learn from that, I don't know what else you're gonna learn.
Quote examples
Mario Teguh
Indonesian Businessman
Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.
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Warren Cuccurullo
American Musician
I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
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Fidel Castro
Statesman
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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Ronaldo
Brazilian Athlete
I feel less energetic; I get pains. My quality of life has deteriorated, and it takes me longer to recover from any form of physical activity.
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P. G. Wodehouse
English Writer
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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Machine Gun Kelly
American Musician
Every night, we put on shows that are deteriorating our bodies' life span... we don't do it for it all to be in vain.
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Oswald Spengler
German Philosopher
If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
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Richard Platt
British Writer
Our voices need to be raised in unison against the deterioration of our culture.
Quote examples
Charles Horton Cooley
American Sociologist
To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
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