deteriorate
Surveys are starting to show a sharp deterioration in consumer confidence.
The program is intended to prevent the significant deterioration of air quality.
The disease causes a gradual deterioration of the brain.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Deteriorating and making worse
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deterioration | Business English

deterioration
noun[ C or U ]
uk /dɪˌtɪəriəˈreɪʃən/us
the process or fact of becoming worse:
We cannot allow continued deterioration of our production standards.
A deterioration in retail sales in the second quarter has resulted in a poor forecast.

Examples of deterioration

deterioration
We will now summarise some of these psychological processes involved within the dementia sufferer's response to the experience of neurological deterioration.
It remains unclear whether preschizophrenics show significant deterioration with age in any given domain.
Therefore, the role of lipoxygenase in seed deterioration remains uncertain.
The effect of downregulating the signalling pathways is to push deterioration back in time, not to prevent it.
Medial prefrontal cortical dysfunction may in turn result in deterioration of the ability to perceive movements and mental states from other persons.
The measures proposed are oriented to mitigating the factors that induce greater environmental deterioration and poverty.
The hypothesis that the decrease of raffinose family oligosaccharides during priming is related to rapid seed deterioration in storage has recently been examined vigorously.
The counterpart of these good macroeconomic performances, resulting from adjusting replacement rates, is the important deterioration in the relative standardof-living of retirees compared to workers.
It was only at considerably lower axis water contents that signs of intracellular deterioration were noted, coincident with declining viability of the rapidly-dried seeds.
Cultures were monitored for as long as 18 days, but both control and treated worms showed signs of deterioration after day 12.
This change causes concomitant deterioration in function and behavior.
We view a deterioration marker as representing a distinct process that is cumulative, progressive, and not necessarily permanent.!
The first four in the table, pertaining mostly to state capture, all show either stagnation or deterioration.
However, strong deterioration of discharge stability is evident in hydrogen-based mixtures.
The men's rapid deterioration was attracting widespread concern in much the same way colliery explosions had in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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Collocations withdeterioration

deterioration

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continued deterioration
According to him, with continued deterioration of the resource base, this relationship must 'eventually turn from positive to negative' (p. 1335).
continuing deterioration
This period was one of continuing deterioration in the economy.
environmental deterioration
The measures proposed are oriented to mitigating the factors that induce greater environmentaldeterioration and poverty.
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