deteriorate · verb
Significados y ejemplos
Empeorar en estado, calidad o eficacia.
The roof deteriorated rapidly after a small leak was left unrepaired throughout the wet winter.
Relations between the partners began to deteriorate when neither would explain how the shared money had been spent.
Without regular practice, her confidence deteriorated even though she still understood the basic principles of the subject.
We noticed the service deteriorating as staff numbers fell and requests took increasingly longer to answer.
Formas
- deteriorate base form
- deteriorates third-person singular present
- deteriorated past tense; past participle
- deteriorating present participle