deteriorating (verb)

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• deteriorate — [c]/dəˈtɪəriəreɪt / (say duh tearreeuhrayt) verb (deteriorated, deteriorating) –verb (i) 1. to become worse. –verb (t) 2. to make worse; make lower in character or quality: *we find growth bringing with it all sorts of unwanted side effects that… …  

• keep up — verb a) To maintain; to preserve; to prevent from deteriorating. The NRA is pumping groundwater into the River Itchen in Hampshire to keep up its flow and is trying to save three streams, the Tong, the Little Stour and the Dour from going dry… …   Wiktionary

• deteriorate — verb (I) 1 to become worse: deteriorating health | Relations between the two countries have since deteriorated. 2 (+ into) to develop into a bad or unpleasant situation: The meeting soon deteriorated into a fight. deterioration noun (U) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• situation — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ general, overall, whole ▪ current, immediate, present ▪ international, local, national …   Collocations dictionary

• deteriorate — I verb adulterate, aggravate, atrophy, become worse, collapse, corrode, corrumpere, corrupt, debase, debauch, debilitate, decay, decline, decompose, decrease, defile, degenerate, degrade, demoralize, denature, depravare, depreciate, devalue,… …   Law dictionary

• deteriorate — [[t]dɪtɪ͟əriəreɪt[/t]] deteriorates, deteriorating, deteriorated VERB If something deteriorates, it becomes worse in some way. There are fears that the situation might deteriorate into full scale war... The weather conditions are deteriorating …   English dictionary

• decline — I. verb (declined; declining) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French decliner, from Latin declinare to turn aside, inflect, from de + clinare to incline more at lean Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. archaic to turn from a straight… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Cubans — This article is about the native people of Cuba. For citizens of Cuban origin inhabiting the United States of America, see Cuban American. Cubans Cubanos Total population  Cuba Cuban people (2010) 11,241,161 Total population of …   Wikipedia

• sea — noun 1 area of salt water ADJECTIVE ▪ calm ▪ a calm sea after the storm ▪ choppy, heavy, mountainous (esp. BrE), raging, rough …   Collocations dictionary

• skid — /skɪd / (say skid) noun 1. a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along. 2. US one of a number of such logs or planks forming a skidway. 3. a plank or the like, especially one of a …  

• Diaspora — For other uses, see Diaspora (disambiguation). A diaspora (from Greek διασπορά, scattering, dispersion )[1] is the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland [2] or people dispersed by whatever… …   Wikipedia