Deteriorated
[di'tiəriəreitid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Deteriorate
Typist: Marvin
Examples
- Deteriorated, that is to say, in the good qualities of horses, not of dogs? Plato. The Republic.
- In the first place, history shows that wherever polygamy has been largely allowed the race has deteriorated. Plato. The Republic.
- And dogs are deteriorated in the good qualities of dogs, and not of horses? Plato. The Republic.
- When horses are injured, are they improved or deteriorated? Plato. The Republic.
- And will not men who are injured be deteriorated in that which is the proper virtue of man? Plato. The Republic.
- How far she is really reformed or deteriorated in her secret self, is another question. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But under the Christian Spanish the product deteriorated sadly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Marvin