Examples of deteriorating

• We could see his health deteriorating week by week.

• Unfortunately the survey shows that children's health is deteriorating in many areas.

• As the company's financial outlook deteriorated, several directors resigned.

• My eyesight began to deteriorate quite rapidly.

• We knew that, for the children's sake, we had to prevent our relationship from deteriorating any further.

• The incremental mortality risk from climate-change-induced malaria, for example, would be valued differently to, say, the same increase in risk caused by deteriorating medical standards.

• Our study addressed whether there is evidence for progression, potentially deteriorating, over the long-term course of the disorder.

• Farmers were not only losing their share, but the water quality was also deteriorating every year due to the increasing use of pesticides.