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Definition of Deteriorate
Deteriorate

To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind.

To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.

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Deteriorate Quotations

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain

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.
Fidel Castro

All things deteriorate in time.
Virgil

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
P. G. Wodehouse

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.
David Hyde Pierce

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.
Warren Cuccurullo

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.
Gerard Arpey

Without action, we are going to continue to allow Iran to be a safe harbor for terrorists, see its economy further deteriorate, and see the Middle East further destabilize.
Russ Carnahan

Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.
Charles Rangel

The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.
Gene Tunney

Deteriorate Translations

deteriorate in German is verschlechtere, verschlechtern
deteriorate in Italian is peggiorare
deteriorate in Norwegian is forverres
deteriorate in Spanish is deteriorar, agravarse


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