Crossword-Solution: DETERIORATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Deteriorate | v. t. | To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind. |
| Deteriorate | v. i. | To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate. |
We have 78 clues for the answer “DETERIORATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| to make inferior in quality or value | 1 answer |
| Worsen significantly | 1 answer |
| It has "rot" and "die" inside | 1 answer |
| Decline in quality over time | 1 answer |
| Go downhill and stop, I pontificate (11) | 1 answer |
| Become progressively worse | 1 answer |
| Get worse | 2 answers |
| FALL into disuse | 2 answers |
| AMELIORATE (ant.) | 2 answers |
| Grow worse. | 4 answers |
| MAKE bad | 4 answers |
| factorise | 9 answers |
| IMPROVE (ant.) | 9 answers |
| airway | 9 answers |
| fall foul of | 12 answers |
| moulder | 13 answers |
| putrefy | 15 answers |
| Fall apart | 16 answers |
| Go downhill | 16 answers |
| retrogress | 19 answers |
| Wear out? | 20 answers |
| Waste (away) | 20 answers |
| MOVE backward | 22 answers |
| Corrode | 22 answers |
| Devalue | 23 answers |
| make worse | 25 answers |
| devitalise | 27 answers |
| Decompose | 29 answers |
| retrograde | 30 answers |
| Starve | 31 answers |
| Droop | 33 answers |
| Erode | 34 answers |
| MAKE one sick | 39 answers |
| deprave | 40 answers |
| denature | 41 answers |
| dilapidate | 42 answers |
| Disintegrate | 43 answers |
| Expire | 45 answers |
| not improve matters | 46 answers |
| Backslide | 48 answers |
| perish | 50 answers |
| Go Back | 51 answers |
| Abate | 51 answers |
| Recede | 51 answers |
| Fall (off) | 51 answers |
| uglify | 52 answers |
| Dwindle | 52 answers |
| Impair | 52 answers |
| worsen | 53 answers |
| downgrade | 53 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DETERIORATE (5)
Russia's capital stock continues to deteriorate because of insufficient maintenance and new construction.
One reads of the astounding versatility of an actor who is stout and lean on the same evening, but what is he to the novelist who is a dozen persons within the hour? Morally, I fear, we must deteriorate—but this is a subject I may wisely edge away from.
How could Matthew think Wallaby should abandon its founding vision of giving high technology power to the individual with a personal computer or portable interactive assistant in favor of creating mere peripherals that connected to ICP's dictatorial, impersonal desktop and mainframe computers? What's more, at about this time their friendship began to deteriorate.
Russia's physical plant continues to deteriorate because of insufficient maintenance and new construction.
The consequence of this ignorance is that they depend for good patterns of flies on mere chance and experiment; and that the shop patterns, originally excellent, deteriorate continually, till little or no likeness to their living prototype remains, being tied by town girls, who have no more understanding of what the feathers and mohair in their hands represent than they have of what the National Debt represents.
Quotes with DETERIORATE (3)
Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.
If they say you will fall, rise. If they say you will fail, succeed. If they say you will break, kept it together. If they say you will deteriorate, flourish.
A planet might deteriorate even if human beings existed upon it, if the society were itself abnormal and did not understand the importance of preserving the environment.""Surely," said Pelorat, "such a society would quickly be destroyed. I don't think it would be possible for human beings to fail to understand the importance of retaining the very factors that are keeping them alive." Bliss said, "I don't have your pleasant faith in human reason, Pel. It seems to me to be quit…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2001–2022).