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deteriorating

deteriorating \deteriorating\ adj. going from better to worse.

Syn: declining, failing, regressing, retrograde, retrogressive.

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deteriorating
  1. getting worse v

  2. (present participle of deteriorate English)

Usage examples of "deteriorating".

Faced with mounting internal threats, a deteriorating economic situation, and no relief in sight, Saddam decided to try to force the issue.

Nangi's extreme solicitousness had set Nicholas's teeth on edge, another bad sign of his deteriorating emotional state.

There was no trace of Kansatsu himself, and Nicholas was frightened that the bone-chilling cold had combined with his deteriorating condition to make him delirious.

Yossarian, we live in an age of distrust and deteriorating spiritual values.

Or was the whole fantastic episode merely the figment of a diseased imagination, his own, of a deteriorating mind, a rotting brain?

Like the startling revelations of McVeigh's racing fuel purchases a year and-a-half after the fact, this well-timed ruse was engineered to resuscitate the government's rapidly deteriorating case.

You'll explain to OFS that you can no longer sit by and watch the deteriorating situation in the Cluster.

You’ll explain to OFS that you can no longer sit by and watch the deteriorating situation in the Cluster.

The vice president was campaigning full-time, the president was investing ever more of his time in trying to secure a Palestinian-Israeli peace agreement before he left office, and the rest of the government was just trying to prevent its position on Iraq from deteriorating further.

The weather is deteriorating rapidly and there's a hurricane warning out.

He's got the ear of a lot of people with problems they can blame on deteriorating scientific standards.

With conditions deteriorating and violence breaking out, to press ahead without the protection of an armed force would be folly bordering on recklessness.

Every once in a while they'd run across a bent, deteriorating sign that read "99".