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Webster 1913 Edition

(dē̍-tē′rĭ-ō̍-rāt)

Verb.

To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.

Under such conditions, the mind rapidly

deteriorates

Goldsmith.

Verb.

[L.] To grow worse; to be impaired in quality to degenerate; opposed to meliorate.

Verb.

To make worse; to reduce in quality; as, to deteriorate a race of men of their condition.