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deteriorate
/dɪˈtɪɹ.iə.ɹeɪt/
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dih-TEER-ee-uh-rayt: the strongest beat comes early.
In dih-TEER-ee-uh-rayt, retain both r sounds: one near TEER and one before the final ayt. Keep the intervening vowels lighter than the stressed syllable.
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“The path began to deteriorate after the heavy rain.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does deteriorate mean?
verb
- To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
- To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɪˈtɪɹ.iə.ɹeɪt/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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/diˈtɪɹ.iə.ɹeɪt//dəˈtɪɹ.iə.ɹeɪt//dəˈtɪɹ.i.eɪt/
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When such is the case the powers of the men individually will always deteriorate physically and morally.
Our institutions will not deteriorate by extension, and our sense of justice will not abate under tropic suns in distant seas.
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The best thing that can happen then is that their nature should not change, that they should not deteriorate, as is so often the case.
The tillage suffers, the crops deteriorate, this reacts on prices, the ryot sinks lower and lower, and gets more into the grasp of the rapacious money-lender.