Both Uses
deteriorate
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- By this point in the campaign—a point far beyond anything most troops in history had endured—the Marines' combat efficiency was showing signs of deterioration, and the boys themselves had begun to resemble ghostly remnants of a fighting force.†
Chpt 13.deterioration = worsening; or the amount of worsening
- Their alertness, their finely tuned instinct for self-preservation, had inevitably deteriorated into a trancelike state.†
Chpt 13. *deteriorated = became worse
Definitions:
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(1)
(deteriorate) become worse
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)