Thesaurus / deteriorated
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Infrastructure—bridges, highways, pavement—deteriorates over time with continuous use.
SMART CONCRETE COULD PAVE THE WAY FOR HIGH-TECH, COST-EFFECTIVE ROADSLUNA LUNOVEMBER 13, 2020SINGULARITY HUB A five-year cheddar, although tasty, will result in an overly oily fondue because its casein has deteriorated too much to form a cohesive melted mass.
THE SCIENTIFIC WAY TO MAKE PERFECTLY CREAMY FONDUEBY PAT POLOWSKY/SAVEUROCTOBER 2, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCETry as they might to cross-pollinate through research and investments, the climate between China and the United States continues to deteriorate into political one-upmanship, leaving users to pay the steepest costs.
IT’S GETTING HARDER FOR TECH COMPANIES TO BRIDGE THE US-CHINA DIVIDEAMY NORDRUMSEPTEMBER 21, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWOne year as a teacher — you’re not going to deteriorate as a teacher and not be able to get paid going forward.
WHY CAN’T SCHOOLS GET WHAT THE N.F.L. HAS? (EP. 431)STEPHEN J. DUBNERSEPTEMBER 10, 2020FREAKONOMICSThe Tuesday talks marked a rare moment of cooperation between the two powers, whose deteriorating relations over the pandemic, Hong Kong, and human rights, at times, have appeared to put the trade pact at risk.
THE U.S.-CHINA TRADE DEAL IS MOVING AHEAD—IN SPITE OF EVERYTHINGGRADY MCGREGORAUGUST 25, 2020FORTUNEBut in Virginia it was grown without interruption or alternation, and the plantations rapidly deteriorated in fertility.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.And there was not too much of it—never any more than a tired and slightly deteriorated editor could stand.
THE CREATORSMAY SINCLAIRSide by side with this deteriorated literature there goes on a more encouraging folk-singing.
THE HISTORY OF YIDDISH LITERATURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURYLEO WIENEROf the fourteen “good,” thirteen graduated in as good health; one in much deteriorated health.
THE EDUCATION OF AMERICAN GIRLSANNA CALLENDER BRACKETTWorse than all, too, the common trout deteriorated, for they had fed on the spawn of the salmo eriox.
THE RIVERS OF GREAT BRITAIN: RIVERS OF THE EAST COASTVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO DETERIORATED
- debilitated
- deteriorated
- devitalized
- done in
- enfeebled
- fatigued
- feeble
- gone to seed
- incapacitated
- lackadaisical
- languid
- languishing
- languorous
- limp
- listless
- on the ropes
- out of condition
- out of gas
- out of shape
- paralyzed
- prostrate
- run-down
- rusty
- sapped
- soft
- spent
- spiritless
- tired
- undermined
- unnerved
- vitiated
- washed out
- weak
- weakened
- beat
- bushed
- busted
- clichéd
- consumed
- depleted
- destroyed
- deteriorated
- dinged
- drained
- drawn
- effete
- exhausted
- fatigued
- frayed
- gone
- hackneyed
- had it
- haggard
- jaded
- kaput
- knocked out
- old
- overused
- overworked
- pegged out
- pinched
- played-out
- pooped
- ragged
- ruined
- shabby
- shot
- spent
- stale
- tattered
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- tired out
- totaled
- used up
- useless
- wearied
- weary
- well-worn
- wiped out
- worn-down
- worn-out
- wrung out
- beat
- bushed
- busted
- clichéd
- consumed
- depleted
- destroyed
- deteriorated
- dinged
- drained
- drawn
- effete
- exhausted
- fatigued
- frayed
- gone
- hackneyed
- had it
- haggard
- jaded
- kaput
- knocked out
- old
- overused
- overworked
- pegged out
- pinched
- played-out
- pooped
- ragged
- ruined
- shabby
- shot
- spent
- stale
- tattered
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- tired out
- totaled
- used up
- useless
- wearied
- weary
- well-worn
- wiped out
- worn-down
- worn-out
- wrung out
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