What is "deteriorate"

Usage examples of "deteriorate".

Should the weather deteriorate sufficiently to endanger our return flight we have been ordered to make a landing on the airfield near the town of Kalinin.

He took three wrong turnings, the third into a winding country road that crossed and recrossed a river, only to deteriorate to a boreen and then end in a rutted field.

The duke and others tried to turn the crofters into fishermen, but the fishing industry deteriorated.

The dinar continued to slide, and economic and health conditions continued to deteriorate.

In like manner there is a tendency to premature enfeeblement, for the earlier the system matures, the sooner it deteriorates.

Aside from the usual analysis of explosives for the Isthmian Canal Commission, special tests are made to determine the liability of the explosive to exude nitro-glycerine, and to deteriorate in unfavorable weather conditions.

Teachers despair at how educational standards have deteriorated, and how lackadaisical students have become.

Dien Bien Phu, the road deteriorated instead of getting better as it approached the town.

But one case from over a year ago, the subarachnoid leak that had deteriorated into an outright hemorrhage, leapt out at him.

Then she took a deep breath and began, telling them of the Long Interval between the dangerous passes of the Red Star: how the sole Weyr had fallen into disfavor and contempt, how Jora had deteriorated and lost control over her queen, Nemorth, so that, as the Red Star neared, there was no sud- den increase in the size of clutches.

Were it otherwise, the yorgans must deteriorate while the several other classes diverged so greatly from one another that eventually they would have nothing in common and no basis for mutual understanding and regard.

The light beers in vogue to-day are less alcoholic, more lightly hopped, and more quickly brewed than the beers of the last generation, and in this respect are somewhat less stable and more likely to deteriorate than the latter were.

Without guano, or very high manuring, wheat will deteriorate year after year, if sown upon the same soil, until the product would not pay for the labor of sowing and harvesting.

The shells of unfortunate mollusks bled calcium until they deteriorated beyond usefulness.

She showed him also the house that had once been a hotel, now vacant and deteriorating rapidly, in the attic of which he found, among the detritus of yesteryears, a letter once written by Daniel Lyam Montross to the woman who had been the last occupant of the hotel.