deteriorates
- 1Third-person singular simple present of deteriorate.
Air quality deteriorates rapidly when wildfires spread across the region.
His eyesight deteriorates noticeably as the disease progresses.
Note
A form that does double duty, because the verb runs in two directions. Used intransitively, the subject itself declines: the coastline deteriorates, a patient's condition deteriorates. Used transitively, it takes an object and means "makes worse": salt air deteriorates the paintwork. A direct object after the verb signals the causative use. With I, you, we or they, the form is the bare deteriorate.
Constant exposure to salt air deteriorates the paintwork on seaside houses.
Neglect deteriorates a building faster than age does.
deteriorates is a form of deteriorate
deteriorate, verb: To grow worse; to become impaired in quality or condition, or to degenerate. Full entry
- Forms
- deterioratedeteriorates he/she/itdeteriorating -ing formdeteriorated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- deteriorate → deteriorates: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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