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Definition of Deteriorates
1. deteriorate [v] - See also: deteriorate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deteriorates
Literary usage of Deteriorates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The oil mellows by keeping threa years, after which it deteriorates unless mixed
with alcohol ; it i» also improved by redistillation. ..."
2. Clinical lectures on the diseases of women and children by Gunning S. Bedford (1864)
"Fashionable Mothers; Neglect of the young Infant: Milk deteriorates by being
retained in the Breast—Jaundice in a Woman seven Months Pregnant—Why is ..."
3. The Thinker: A Review of World-wide Christian Thought (1895)
"... the control of the living pneuma, human nature—both soul and body—deteriorates
through lawless life into a depraved or inferior moral condition. ..."
4. Report of the Committee of the African Institution: Read to the General by African Institution (London, England) (1814)
"... to be obviated by the means already pointed out: it deteriorates the quality,
and consequently lowers the price of the Cotton. ..."
5. Ireland in 1868, the Battle-field for English Party Strife: Its Grievances by Gerald Fitzgibbon (1868)
"... liable or precarious tenure, 500 occur in which he exhausts and deteriorates
the land, and leaves it reduced to half its original value. ..."
6. On the Functions of the Brain and of Each of Its Parts: With Observations on by Franz Josef Gall (1835)
"Education perfects, deteriorates, represses, and directs the Innate Faculties,
but can neither destroy nor produce any. Since we have ventured to regard ..."
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