to cause to deteriorate

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• deteriorate — 01. Grandpa s health has [deteriorated] a lot in the last few hours, and he isn t expected to live through the night. 02. Attempts at peace talks are continuing amid fears that the situation will [deteriorate] into a full scale war. 03. Weather… …   Grammatical examples in English

• deteriorate — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. depreciate, decline, worsen, degenerate; see decay . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. decay, degenerate, fall apart, crumble, degrade, decline, *go downhill, *go to the dogs, corrode, rot, decompose, depreciate. ANT.:… …   English dictionary for students

• proximate cause — The dominant and effective cause of an event or chain of events that results in a claim on an insurance policy. The loss must be caused directly, or as a result of a chain of events initiated, by an insured peril. For example, a policy covering… …   Big dictionary of business and management

• wear — I. verb (wore; worn; wearing) Etymology: Middle English weren, from Old English werian; akin to Old Norse verja to clothe, invest, spend, Latin vestis clothing, garment, Greek hennynai to clothe Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. to… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• corrupt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. demoralize, vitiate, deprave, defile, degrade, debase, debauch; bribe, pervert; contaminate, spoil, taint. adj. wicked, demoralized, immoral, impure, dissolute, depraved, profligate, base; vicious; …   English dictionary for students

• waterlog — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌlȯg also ˌläg verb Etymology: back formation from waterlogged transitive verb 1. : to make (as a boat) unmanageable by flooding used of the sea or a leak 2. : to deprive (as floating timber) of buoyancy by saturation with water 3 …   Useful english dictionary

• erode — verb (eroded; eroding) Etymology: Latin erodere to eat away, from e + rodere to gnaw more at rodent Date: 1612 transitive verb 1. to diminish or destroy by degrees: a. to eat into or away by slow destruction of substance (as by acid, infection,… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• wear — [[t]wɛər[/t]] v. wore, worn, wear•ing, n. 1) to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, support, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a wig[/ex] 2) to bear or have in one s aspect or appearance: to wear a smile[/ex] …   From formal English to slang

• corrode — [kə rōd′] vt. corroded, corroding [ME corroden < OFr corroder < L corrodere, to gnaw to pieces < com , intens. + rodere, to gnaw: see RAT] 1. to eat into or wear away gradually, as by rusting or by the action of chemicals 2. to work upon …   English World dictionary

• erode — [ē rōd′, irōd′] vt. eroded, eroding [Fr éroder < L erodere < e , out, off + rodere, to gnaw: see RAT] 1. to eat into; wear away; disintegrate [acid erodes metal] 2. to form by wearing away gradually [the running water eroded a gully] 3. to… …   English World dictionary

• de|con|di|tion — «DEE kuhn DIHSH uhn», transitive verb. 1. to remove a conditioned response or responses from: »The best way to decondition his animals was to…remove them completely from the scene of conditioning (Science News Letter). 2. to cause to deteriorate… …   Useful english dictionary