deteriorate
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become worse or inferior in condition, character, quality, value, etc.
deteriorative
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a word derived from
deteriorate.
Example Sentences
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But the nature of a deteriorative cognitive disease such as Alzheimer’s makes the patient’s knowledge and self-awareness ambiguous.
From Slate ● May 4, 2021
When Tirrell’s nephew was diagnosed with a fatal deteriorative disease, Tirrell’s brother watched his son fade away and supported his family with strength as well as vulnerability.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2020
While organisations less sound of constitutional morale, in place of sustaining their typal ideals, conform to these deteriorative methods, and degenerate from higher to lower-grade standards of structure and function.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
Life being re-activity, in terms of living processes, to the factors of environment, such immunity entails loss of vital re-activity to vivifying as much as against deteriorative factors.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
Training the reflective function is the training of character, while the training of the purely physical side often, and the training of the intellectual side not uncommonly, have a distinctly deteriorative effect.
From Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College by Arthur Christopher Benson
