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deteriorating

[ dih-teer-ee-uh-rey-ting ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

becoming worse or inferior in condition, character, quality, value, etc.:
A deteriorating house, whatever the cause, will have an adverse effect on your real estate investment.
Officials have warned of a deteriorating security situation in the disputed territory.
disintegrating or wearing away:
If what you have underneath is fabric or fiberglass, I’d be concerned that deteriorating paint is letting ultraviolet rays do their worst to your aircraft.

First recorded in 1680–90; deteriorate ( def ) + -ing ²( def )

She also tracks his deteriorating health through the harrowing videos of the captives regularly released by the Nusra Front.

Soon, there were no civil society groups left to monitor the deteriorating situation with hostages and abductions.

“We got other accounts as well that his health was deteriorating,” he added.

The family feud over America's Top 40 host Casey Kasem's deteriorating health hit a meat-throwing new low this weekend.

On March 19, 2014, for example, a patient with a deteriorating heart condition requested to see a doctor.

Meanwhile his property may be seized by a marshal or receiver on proof that he is neglecting it or that it is deteriorating.

In Sarah we see as great a luxuriance of evil as can be imagined to blend with real piety, without essentially deteriorating it.

The effect of constant, of lifelong application in such labour cannot but be deteriorating to the mind.

These days Miss Kilrain was holding aloof from the Society and its deteriorating tendencies.

Some days ago our most worthy president informed me that they were deteriorating, eh?

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