deteriorating

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He was not running any command center but living out his last few years while health deteriorating.

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Getting worse.

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adjective

Getting worse.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for deteriorating.

adjective

Getting worse.

Example sentences

He was not running any command center but living out his last few years while health deteriorating.

Describing it as 'deteriorating mental health' makes it sound like something to be ashamed of.

It's weird to see you casually describing and justifying the deteriorating mental health of a person who was important to you.

Just in time to enjoy the now quickly deteriorating quality of Apple's latest MacBooks!

Would a master be able to spot deteriorating mental health in their patients?

The deteriorating US balance of payments, combined with military spending and foreign aid, resulted in a large supply of dollars around the world.

Sometimes I think my vision is deteriorating but then vision tests confirm that it's just paranoia.

Every time I have to work well over the normal 40 hours many things start deteriorating.

But beyond this, I can't help but feel the entire Tinder experience is slowly deteriorating.

I've heard of communities improving when downvoting was added as an option, and deteriorating when downvoting was added as an option.

Even with just audio on a cellular network, call quality started deteriorating after a few minutes on every platform that I tried.

I'm so glad I got it done -- I did PRK -- but in recent years my vision started deteriorating a little bit.

Quote examples

Maybe deteriorating mental health shouldn't be equated to "going bonkers", and then we won't be discouraging people from talking about something so common.

"Third, the developed world in particular has a productivity problem; it needs productivity enhancements to offset its deteriorating demographics and boost growth."

In this view education in the West has been steadily deteriorating; the rising generation has been deprived of its birthright; the mess of pottage it has received in exchange has not been nutritious; adults have come to lead lives comparatively rich in material comforts and very poor in moral, intellectual, and spiritual tone." -- Preface to "Great Books of the Western World", "The Great Conversation Vol.