Usually means: Becomes worse in quality, condition.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word deteriorates:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. deteriorates: Merriam-Webster
  2. deteriorates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. deteriorates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Deteriorates, deteriorates: Wordnik
  5. deteriorates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. deteriorates: Wiktionary
  7. deteriorates: Dictionary.com
  8. deteriorates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. deteriorates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deteriorates: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deteriorates: Medical dictionary

(Note: See deteriorate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (deteriorate)

verb:  (transitive) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
verb:  (intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
▸ Also see deteriorate


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