All 10 Uses
deteriorate
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- Later-after six bodies had been located, after a search for two others had been abandoned, after surgeons had amputated the gangrenous right hand of my teammate Beck Weathers-people would ask why, if the weather had begun to deteriorate, had climbers on the upper mountain not heeded the signs?†
Chpt 1deteriorate = become worse
- After Ngawang collapsed trying to walk down the valley Tuesday 'Orning and was brought back up to Base Camp, he was not put back On oxygen, even though his condition continued to deteriorate, in part because he stubbornly kept insisting that he wasn't sick.†
Chpt 8
- Yanking the laces tight made Imme wince in pain; for the past two weeks the condition of my cracked, bleeding fingertips had been steadily deteriorating in the cold air.†
Chpt 8deteriorating = worsening
- As pressure builds inside the skull, motor and mental skills deteriorate with alarming speed-typically in a few hours or less-and often without the victim even noticing the change.†
Chpt 11deteriorate = become worse
- Frank's apparent deterioration came as a particular blow: I'd assumed from the beginning that if any members of our team reached the top, Frank-who'd been high on the mountain three times previously and seemed so savvy and strong-would be among them.†
Chpt 11deterioration = worsening; or the amount of worsening
- "Every minute you remain at this altitude and above," he caution( your minds and bodies are deteriorating."†
Chpt 11deteriorating = worsening
- Over the preceding six weeks there had been several serious accidents: Tenzing's fall into the crevasse before we even arrived at Base Camp; Ngawang Topche's case of HAPE and subsequent deterioration; a young, apparently fit English climber on Mal Duff's team named Ginger Fullen who'd had a serious heart attack near the top of the Icefall; a Dane on Duff's team named Kim Sejberg who was struck by a falling serac in the Icefall and broke several ribs.†
Chpt 11deterioration = worsening; or the amount of worsening
- The weather deteriorated as the afternoon wore on.†
Chpt 12 *deteriorated = became worse
- Three members of the team threw in the towel and went down at around 2:00 Pm but Smanla, PaIjor, and Morup pushed onward despite the deteriorating weather.†
Chpt 18deteriorating = worsening
- Unless we somehow acquired some more gas or descended to a lower camp, I knew that my teammates and I would continue to deteriorate rapidly.†
Chpt 19deteriorate = become worse
Definitions:
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(1)
(deteriorate) become worse
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)