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Webster 1913 Edition

Deterioration

De-teˊri-o-ra′tion

,

Noun.

[LL.

deterioratio

: cf. F.

détérioration

.]

The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

Webster 1828 Edition

Deterioration

DETERIORATION

,

Noun.

A growing or making worse; the state of growing worse.