deteriorate
to become weaker, less valuable
TRANSLATION
deteriorate = verschlechtern, verschlimmern, abbauen (woerterbuch.info) --- GOOGLE INDEX deteriorate: approximately 10,400,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Stocks plummeted on Thursday, with the Dow industrials tumbling more than 300 points, on signs of further weakness in the housing market and DETERIORATING conditions for corporate buyouts.
(Reuters News Service)
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The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to DETERIORATE, but in his forties he is at the maximum of his badness.
- H.L. Mencken
(Reuters News Service)
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The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to DETERIORATE, but in his forties he is at the maximum of his badness.
- H.L. Mencken
Did you
know?
deteriorate
verb
- to diminish or impair in quality, character, or value
(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition)
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WORD ORIGIN
Etymology: 1572, from the lower Latin deteriorare, to become worse, and from the Latin deterior, meaning worse.
How do marriages deteriorate? A joke that is circulating on the internet says:
In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens.
In the second year of marriage, the woman speaks and the man listens.
In the third year, they both speak and the neighbors listen.
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SYNONYMS
corrode, corrupt, crumble, debase, debilitate, decay, decline, decompose, degenerate, degrade, deprave, depreciate, disintegrate, ebb, fade, fall apart, go downhill, impair, languish, lapse, lessen, lose it, lose quality, lower, regress, retrogress, rot, sink, skid, slide, spoil, vitiate, weaken, wear away, worsen
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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ANTONYMS
ameliorate, build, construct, grow, improve, strengthen
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"The meeting deteriorated into a two-hour argument with lots of finger pointing."
verb
- to diminish or impair in quality, character, or value
(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition)
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WORD ORIGIN
Etymology: 1572, from the lower Latin deteriorare, to become worse, and from the Latin deterior, meaning worse.
How do marriages deteriorate? A joke that is circulating on the internet says:
In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens.
In the second year of marriage, the woman speaks and the man listens.
In the third year, they both speak and the neighbors listen.
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SYNONYMS
corrode, corrupt, crumble, debase, debilitate, decay, decline, decompose, degenerate, degrade, deprave, depreciate, disintegrate, ebb, fade, fall apart, go downhill, impair, languish, lapse, lessen, lose it, lose quality, lower, regress, retrogress, rot, sink, skid, slide, spoil, vitiate, weaken, wear away, worsen
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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ANTONYMS
ameliorate, build, construct, grow, improve, strengthen
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"The meeting deteriorated into a two-hour argument with lots of finger pointing."
