Deteriorate

Definition: Deteriorate

Deteriorate

Verb

1. Become worse or disintegrate; "His mind deteriorated".

2. Grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "deteriorate" was first used: 1572. (references)

Synonyms: Deteriorate

Contraction

Verb: become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay; (deteriorate).

Deterioration

Verb: be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated; Adjective:; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane; (decrease); ebb; retrograde; - decline, droop; go down; (sink); go downhill, go from bad to worse,Verb: be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated; Adjective:; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane; (decrease); ebb; retrograde; - decline, droop; go down; (sink); go downhill, go from bad to worse, go farther and fare worse; jump out of the frying pan into the fire.

Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice.

Crosswords: Deteriorate

Health

Osteoarthritis, a disease in which the joints deteriorate. (references)

Over time, legs and arms may become spastic, and mental functions may deteriorate. (references)

Fuchs' dystrophy occurs when endothelial cells gradually deteriorate without any apparent reason. (references)

Business

It first showed signs of major pollution in the early 1920’s and has continued to deteriorate for more than 70 years to its current condition. (references)

Children

Uzbekistan

Anecdotal evidence indicates that more children continued to drop out of high school as economic circumstances continued to deteriorate. (references)

Tajikistan

Public education is intended to be free and universal; however, a lack of resources has caused the public school system to deteriorate to the point at which it barely functions. (references)

Civil Liberties

Iran

Press freedom continued to deteriorate during the year. (references)

Economic History

Dominican Rep

The merchandise trade balance continues to deteriorate. (references)

Burma

The quality of life in Burma has continued to deteriorate. (references)

Jamaica

Increased oil prices caused the current account to deteriorate. (references)

Human Rights

Saint Lucia

Prison conditions are very poor and continued to deteriorate during the year. (references)

Saint Lucia

In the meantime, existing prison facilities continue to deteriorate, since no new resources have been committed to them. (references)

Indonesia

Law and order continued to deteriorate steadily, and in June 2000, violent mobs stormed through Ambon city with little or no security force interference. (references)

Political Economy

Israel

Despite numerous attempts to curb the violent clashes and terrorist incidents which ensued, including meetings at Sharm-el-Sheikh in October 2000 and intensive year-end talks in Taba, the security situation continued to deteriorate throughout the first half of 2001. As of the end of June, 2001 efforts were ongoing to implement a U.S.-brokered ceasefire and the recommendations of the Sharm-el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Commission (Mitchell Commission), mandated under the October 2000 Sharm el Sheikh agreement to help prevent violence and find modalities for a return to the peace process. (references)

Trade

Eritrea

Consequently, Eritrea's foreign currency reserves continued to deteriorate, reaching 2.3 months of imports by end of 1999. Eritrea does not impose import licenses or quantitative trade restrictions except for health, security, and environmental reasons. (references)

Worker Rights

South Africa

The CCMA also gradually is beginning to play an interventionist role by becoming involved in disputes before they deteriorate into full-fledged strikes or lockouts. (references)

Albanian

degjenerohem, shkatërrohem (be scattered, crumble, decay, dilapidate, totter), prishem (be destroyed, break off, decay, decompose, fail, fall, fall out, fall to pieces, go awry, go phut, go wrong, pack up, perish, putrefy, quarrel, rot, run to seed, separate, take apart, touch, turn sour), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فسد (be corrupted, be decayed, be decomposed, be depraved, be evil, be immoral, be marred, be pervert, be putrid, be rotten, be spoiled, be vicious, become corrupted, become decayed, become decomposed, become depraved, become evil, become immoral, become marred, become pervert, become perverted, become putrid, become rotten, become spoiled, become vicious, contaminate, corrupt, decay, decompose, degenerate, deprave, disintegrate, foul, go bad, impair, infect, mangle, mar, mess, mess up, misrule, putrefy, rot, spoil, spoilt), ‏تلف (blight, bungle, burn, consume, corrode, damage, destroy, deterioration, go bad, go off, go to the dogs, harm, hash, impair, mangle, molder, moulder, ravage, ruin, scourge, spoil, spoilage, spoiling, take out, total, waste away), ‏تدهور (break down, breakdown, crumble, decadence, decay, deterioration, drop, go to pot, go to the bad, impairment, retrogradation, run to seed, sour, suffer, tumble). (various references)

Bulgarian 

корумпирам се, влошавам (aggravate, alloy, exacerbate, exaggerate, make worse, worsen), израждам се (degrade), израждам. (various references)

Chinese 

變質 (go bad, metamorphism), 恶化 (Aggravation, Deteriorated, Deteriorating, Deterioration, Exacerbate, Exacerbated, exacerbating, Exacerbation, Worsen, worsened, worsening). (various references)

Czech

zhoršit se (feel worse, slip), polevit (die down, drop, let up, slacken). (various references)

Danish

paa grund af sin haardhed og isaer af sin sproedhed nedsaetter udskillelsen af sigma-fase staalets mekaniske egenskaber (because of its hardness and brittleness, the precipitation of the sigma-phase causes the properties of the steel to deteriorate). (various references)

Dutch

uitscheiding van de sigma-fase geeft een verslechtering van de mechanische eigenschappen van het staal.Dit wordt veroorzaakt door de hardheid en brosheid van de sigma-fase (because of its hardness and brittleness, the precipitation of the sigma-phase causes the properties of the steel to deteriorate). (various references)

Farsi 

خراب کردن (Amortize, Botch, Corrupt, Demolish, Destroy, Devastate, Dilapidate, Disfigure, Impair, Muck, Muddle, Ruin, Ruinate, Unbuild, Undo, Unmake, Vitiate, Wrack, Wreck), روبزوال گذاشتن , بدترکردن (Aggravate, Embitter, Exacerbate, Exasperate, Worsen). (various references)

Finnish

huonota (get worse), huonontau (get worse). (various references)

French

déteriorons, déteriorer, déteriorent, détériorer, dégrader (degrade, demean), dégénérer (degenerate), se détériorer (decay), envenimer. (various references)

German

verschlechtern (aggravate, debase, worsen), verschlechtere, verkommen (reprobated, reprobately), verfallen (decay, dilapidated, expire, to decay, tumble down), sich verschlechtern (decline, fail, get worse, worsen), sich verringern (decrease, diminish, lessen, shorten), nachlassen (abate, discount, flag, slacken, subside, to ease up), an wert verlieren (decrease in value, depreciate). (various references)

Greek 

χειροτερεύω (impair, worsen). (various references)

Hebrew 

להתקלקל (go bad, go to the dogs, go wrong, perish, spoil), להתדרדר (roll, roll down, worsen), להתגרע (worsen), להדרדר (go on the skid, roll away, run to seed, slither, worsen). (various references)

Hungarian

rosszabbodik (to deteriorate, to relapse, to worsen), romlik (to decay, to decline, to deteriorate, to fall off), romló (decaying, deteriorative), megront (to debauch, to deprave, to hex, to violate), megromlik (to taint). (various references)

Indonesian

memburuk. (various references)

Italian

deteriorarsi (perish), deteriorare (damage, go bad), degradare (abase, degrade, demote), peggiorare (aggravate, decline), incrinare (damage). (various references)

Korean 

악화하십시요. (various references)

Manx

goll ny smessey (degenerate, get worse, worsen), foudaghey (damage, deterioration). (various references)

Norwegian

forverres. (various references)

Pig Latin

eteriorateday.(various references)

Portuguese

deteriorar (spoil), depreciar (belittle, debase, depreciate, derogate, detract, devaluate, diminish, lessen, misprise, misprize, undervalue), degenerar (degenerate, derogate, retrograde, retrogress, run wild), piorar (complicate, worsen), estragar (spoil). (various references)

Romanian

deteriora (damage, debase, deface, impair), degenera (degenerate, degrade, depauperate, dewindle, rot), defecta (crap, damage, spoil), decãdea (decay, decline, dilapidate, fall, fall into decay, go down, go to seed, lapse, putrefy, rot, ruin, run to seed), dãrãpãna (dilapidate), se strica (addle, break up, corrupt, decay, fester, go bad, go phut, ret, retrogress, spoil, turn), se deteriora, rablagi (soften), hodorogi (lumber, rattle, rumble), avaria (damage, impair, injure, spoil), agrava (aggravate, embitter, exacerbate, exasperate, worsen), înrãutãţi (embitter, pervert, worsen). (various references)

Russian 

ухудшаться (go back, grow worse, retrogress, worsen). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokvariti (adulterate, blemish, corrupt, damage, gum up, mar, queer, sophisticate, spoil, strip, taint, tamper), pogoršati (aggravate, debase, exacerbate, go to the bad, impair, make worse). (various references)

Spanish

deteriorar (spoil). (various references)

Swedish

försämras (get worse), försämra (impair). (various references)

Thai

เสื่อมโทรม, ทำให้ทรุดโทรม. (various references)

Turkish

kötüleşmek (get worse, go down, retrograde, retrogress, sink, worsen), gerilemek (degrade, draw back, drop back, drop behind, drop off, fall back, lose ground, recede, redound, regress, remount, retreat, retrograde, slip, stand back, turn back, worsen), fenalaşmak (be aggravated, become worse, sink), bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, bust, collapse, conk, decay, decline, disrupt, dwindle, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, go wrong, lose face, perish, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sour, spoil, stale, taint, turn, turn sour, upset), bozmak (quash). (various references)

Turkmen 

яaramazlaюmak (worsen), haяallamak (slacken, weaken), erbetleюmek, erbetlemek (turn for the worse). (various references)

Ukrainian

псувати (alloy, bedevil, blemish, blight, blur, break, corrupt, cripple, debase, deface, deform, degrade, deprave, destroy, discount, disfigure, do for, envenom, erode, flaw, make miserable, mess, mismanage, muddle, muff, perish, prejudice, punish, queer, spoil, vitiate, waste), погіршувати (adulterate, aggravate, degrade, deprave, disimprove, impair, worsen, worst). (various references)

Welsh

dirywio (degenerate). (various references)

desideres, desideret, deterior. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "deteriorate": deteriorated, deteriorates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Deteriorate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deteiorate, deteorirate, detericrate, deterioate, deteriora, deterioriate, deteroiate, deteroriate, deterriorate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: reiterated.

-2 letters: reiterate, retreated.

-3 letters: adroiter, iterated, retorted, teratoid, traditor.

-4 letters: ariette, attired, dottier, iterate, rattier, readier, reedier, retired, retiree, retread, retreat, retried, rotated, tardier, tarried, tearier, tetrode, tireder, traitor, treader, treated, treater.

-5 letters: adorer, adroit, aeried, aerier, airted, arider, artier, attire, darter, dearer, dearie, derate, dieter, dotier, dotter, editor, eerier, ideate, iodate, irater, orated.

+1 letter: deteriorated, deteriorates, reorientated.

+2 letters: deteriorative.

+3 letters: radiotelemetry.

+4 letters: intercorrelated, overentertained, radiotelemetric, redetermination.

+5 letters: endarterectomies, predetermination, radiotelemetries, redeterminations.