Vocabulary
Deteriorate
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
become progressively worse.
Urdu meaning
خاصیت بگڑ جانا، تاخیر،بگاڑنا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Without this, the city`s livability and competitiveness will continue to deteriorate, limitingits ability to drive Pakistan`s growth` (Transforming Karachi into a Liveable and Competitive Megacity, 2017, World Bank).
- The ongoing disaster is likely to deteriorate our ranking on most indices.
- With socioeconomic conditions unlikely to change and public service delivery likely to deteriorate further due to falling development expenditures, chances are that new surveys will reveal worsening urban and rural poverty results.
- This will threaten international peace if relations between the two nuclear powers deteriorate further.
- It`s not surprising that the situation in Balochistan continues to deteriorate as more coercive measures are adopted.
Synonyms
worsen, get worse, decline, be in decline, degenerate, decay; collapse, fail, fall, drop,
Curator example
“relations between the countries had deteriorated sharply”
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