Usually means: Decline in quality or condition.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. deteriorate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. deteriorate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deteriorate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deteriorate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deteriorate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deteriorate, deteriorate: Wordnik
  7. deteriorate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deteriorate: Wiktionary
  9. deteriorate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deteriorate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deteriorate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. deteriorate: Dictionary.com
  13. deteriorate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. deteriorate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Deteriorate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. deteriorate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. deteriorate: Rhymezone
  18. deteriorate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. deteriorate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. deteriorate: Free Dictionary
  21. deteriorate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. deteriorate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. deteriorate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deteriorate: Legal dictionary
  2. deteriorate: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deteriorate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deteriorate: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deteriorate: Urban Dictionary

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.

Similar:
degenerate, drop, deteriate, worsen, impair, degrade, disimprove, pejorate, pair, decline, more...

Opposite:
improve, get better, worsen

Types:
rust, corrode, mildew, mold, decay, rot, fade, crumble, wither, melt, more...

Phrases:
deteriorate over time, slowly deteriorate, what deteriorate the car, opposite of deteriorate, more...

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     black,     rust,     olive,     mustard,     taupe,     charcoal,     sepia,     ochre


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Similar:
degenerate, drop, deteriate, worsen, impair, degrade, disimprove, pejorate, pair, decline, more...

Opposite:
improve, get better, worsen

Types:
rust, corrode, mildew, mold, decay, rot, fade, crumble, wither, melt, more...

Phrases:
deteriorate over time, slowly deteriorate, what deteriorate the car, opposite of deteriorate, more...

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     black,     rust,     olive,     mustard,     taupe,     charcoal,     sepia,     ochre



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