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US
/dɪˈtɪɹiɝˌeɪʃən/
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[ UK /dɪtˌiəɹiəɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /dɪtˌiəɹiəɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a symptom of reduced quality or strength
- process of changing to an inferior state
How To Use deterioration In A Sentence
- The result of such rack-rent can only be evil, abuse and neglect of the soil, deterioration in the character of the laborers, and a widespread sense of injustice. VIII. Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece.
- The study predicted that, by 2022, the country would still require $7.2 billion in foreign aid a year—and that assumes an upsurge of so-far inexistent mining-industry revenue and no dramatic deterioration of security. Afghanistan Seeks Enduring Support
- In his provocative work, Clichés To Live By And The Death Of The Sixties, Anaxamander O'Flaherty, a necro-ethnolinguist at the University of Altamont, suggests that the expression, "Everything is everything," succumbed to a natural death brought on by such factors as over-utilization, deterioration of relevance, and lack of adaptability to altered states of reality vis-à-vis the American experience. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
- They're essentially seeing something about time in the deterioration of the smell. Times, Sunday Times
- In real terms, the deterioration has been somewhat less, but still significant. Times, Sunday Times
- Here is the verbatim definition of schizophrenia from the Random House online dictionary - the medical definition: "a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations. Conservative: Dems looking 'schizophrenic' on reform
- Sixteen days after liver transplantation a deterioration in liver function tests occurred and liver biopsy showed cytomegalovirus inclusion bodies.
- Intellectual deterioration leads to political decay.
- Nonetheless, the deterioration in lumbar lordosis and NRS leg pain is noteworthy and of concern.
- The quote from his impromptu speech regarding space travel and its relation to human bone deterioration was hilarious.