All 5 Uses of
deteriorate
in
Catch-22
- Yossarian, we live in an age of distrust and deteriorating spiritual values.†
Chpt 5 *
- He was forced to admit that the hospitals had altered steadily for the worse as the war continued and one moved closer to the battlefront, the deterioration in the quality of the guests becoming most marked within the combat zone itself where the effects of booming wartime conditions were apt to make themselves conspicuous immediately.†
Chpt 17
- Or was the whole fantastic episode merely the figment of a diseased imagination, his own, of a deteriorating mind, a rotting brain?†
Chpt 25
- Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault.†
Chpt 39
- The men are unhappy and morale is beginning to deteriorate.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(deteriorate) become worse