Deteriorate \De*te"ri*o*rate\ (d[-e]*t[=e]"r[i^]*[-o]*r[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deteriorated} (d[-e]*t[=e]"r[i^]*[-o]*r[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Deteriorating} (d[-e]*t[=e]"r[i^]*[-o]*r[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [L. deterioratus, p. p. of deteriorare to deteriorate, fr. deterior worse, prob. a comparative fr. de down, away.] To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind. --Whately.
The art of war . . . was greatly deteriorated. --Southey.
deteriorate \de*te"ri*o*rate\ (d[-e]*t[=e]"r[i^]*[-o]*r[=a]t), v. i. To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
Under such conditions, the mind rapidly deteriorates. --Goldsmith.
But unless wage inflation does fall, the competitiveness of UK exports will continue to deteriorate and Britain's current account will remain in deficit. This will not be a good background on which to fight a second election this year.
"They know that if the meeting doesn't go well in London, prices are likely to deteriorate and 75 cents will look mighty good," she added.
Rich called on the industry's management and unions to establish a commission that would arbitrate future labor problems before they deteriorate into strikes.
Diplomatic sources say Pakistan crossed the nuclear threshhold when relations with neighboring India began to deteriorate.
He said the summary suspension was necessary because the firm could further deteriorate during a normal suspension process.
Service will deteriorate with private operators.
"In other regions, when the economy started to deteriorate, no one could afford housing anymore." In the nation's midsection, however, home prices didn't rise as rapidly during the go-go 1980s as on the coasts.
Wall was confirmed with bipartisan support, but it didn't take long for the honeymoon to deteriorate.
Moreover, in many fields and among many groups of women, the pay gap began to deteriorate by the late '80s.
If untreated, they will deteriorate.
Consumer confidence started to deteriorate much earlier.
The economic research group also said 32% of businessmen expect their companies' financial position to deteriorate in the next six months, the highest proportion in the survey's 14-year history.
A decision to scuttle the Malmo plant could cause relations between management and unions to deteriorate.
The complaints allege that the discs deteriorate and fail.
In today's optical cable systems, signals sent by laser light pulses deteriorate over long distances due to the glass fiber's refractive qualities.
The Joint Agricultural Weather Facility said 89 percent of the winter wheat crop in Kansas was in very poor or poor condition "and continued to deteriorate due to lack of moisture" during the week.
But Connolly says he sees two chief reasons why a sluggish economic growth won't deteriorate into a serious downturn, with widespread layoffs and significant income shrinkage.
They argue that such a waiting period would be medically unsound or even inhumane as it would allow the patient's medical condition to deteriorate and reduce the patient's chances of survival.
They said it must have taken about a year for the horses' conditions to deteriorate.
Soon after he recovered, his condition began to deteriorate, leaving him in the vegetative state two years after the wreck.
Hungary said its balance of payments _ a summing up of international trade payments _ was expected to "deteriorate" in 1989.
Left unrefrigerated after harvest, some apples, such as early McIntosh, will deteriorate within days.
Interstate 80 in Wyoming was closed today in Wyoming from Laramie west to Walcott Junction and road conditions continued to deteriorate as snowfall increased over the state's southern section, police said.
Export prices rose by 6 per cent quarter-on-quarter, against import price rises of 4 per cent. Mr Robert Lind of the Swiss bank UBS said: 'The numbers are consistent with the view that the deficit will deteriorate as recovery gathers pace.
I don't want to see it deteriorate or decline." Incumbent Frank Bogert, 76, is stepping down after two two-year terms.
Supply already outstrips demand, and the position is likely to deteriorate.
The figure for the first three months of 1990 was Dollars 91.6m. The company said the property market 'in most parts of the country continued to deteriorate' and it did not expect any stabilisation until the economy picked up generally.
"When the handicapped child is sitting in a regular classroom and not receiving proper care, they tend to deteriorate," he said.
Organs quickly deteriorate and thus become useless for transplantation unless they are chilled and flushed with preservatives.
Industry analysts generally expect earnings to "deteriorate in 1988 and 1989 but not to the destructive levels of the prior downturn of 1984 and 1985," the report said.