verb
definition
To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
example
to deteriorate the mind
definition
To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
adjective
definition
Getting worse
Examples of deteriorating in a Sentence
The doctor said a sign she was deteriorating would be hallucinations.
There was no running water, no food supplies, no energy whatsoever, just a deteriorating building with a score of insurgents and a small black box.
In the short term we can significantly reduce the stickiness of deteriorating tape.
Scottish weather did its usual dirty trick of deteriorating overnight.
The engine then languished in the open air, slowly deteriorating until under cover storage was provided about 15 years later.
By this time the weather was deteriorating rapidly and a lightning storm rolling up the valley.
Soon after however in deteriorating visibility and a whipping wind the day came to a close.
Those with severe injuries or with a deteriorating level of consciousness may be kept hospitalized for observation.
Biser states that cayenne can "move blood" and reactivate deteriorating functions in the body.
The Italian government has 235 tons of spent fuel from the country's long decommissioned reactors in deteriorating stores.
The next day we left for HC (High Camp) in deteriorating weather.
There has been an unfortunate tendency to pretend that the situation is deteriorating, when the reverse is in fact the case.
Will the equipment start malfunctioning or will the plastic sheet start deteriorating?
Even in circumstances of severe malnutrition, there may be some formation of new bone; it will, however, occur while bone formed earlier is deteriorating.
After 1830, however, many highways were opened, these being usually excellent among the mountains but deteriorating as they descend into the lowlands, where stone is dear.
Much of the film is set in a government-created test city in which deteriorating mannequins take the place of actual humans.
Although deteriorating the Lower Avon did remain navigable to Pershore until it was bought for £ 1,500 in 1950 by Barnwell.
The wholesale jam manufacturers of the present day use this sugar; they boil the jam in vacuo and secure a product that will last a long time without deteriorating, but it lacks the delicacy and distinctive flavour of fruit preserved by a careful housekeeper, who boils it in an open pan with cane sugar to a less density, though exposed for a short time to a greater heat.
They thought her too young to understand words like coma and deteriorating, and they accused her of lying when she said she could help him.
Thus weighting, which was until recently thought to apply only to black silks, and from which coloured silks were comparatively free, is now cheapening and deteriorating the latter in pretty much the same ratio as the former.
Thus the great empire was reduced to immobility and stagnationa process which was assisted by the deteriorating influences of civilization and world-dominion upon the character Internal of the ruling race.