deteriorate

• vi. 悪化する、悪くなる
• vt. 悪化する

de-, 下方に。-ter、比較接尾辞、INTERIORを参照。

deteriorate

deteriorate: [16] The meaning of deteriorate resides etymologically in its first syllable, which represents the Latin preposition dē ‘down’. To this was added the adjectival suffix -ter, to produce *dēter ‘bad’, and this in turn was modified with the comparative suffix -ior to dēterior ‘worse’. Dēterior formed the basis of the verb dēteriorāre ‘get worse’, source of English deteriorate.

deteriorate (v.)

1640s (as a past participle adjective, 1570s), from Late Latin deterioratus, past participle of deteriorare "get worse, make worse," from Latin deterior "worse, lower, inferior, meaner," contrastive of *deter "bad, lower," from PIE *de-tero-, from demonstrative stem *de- (see de). Originally transitive in English; intransitive sense is from 1758. Related: Deteriorated; deteriorating.

1. The position of the have-nots in our society could deteriorate even further.

貧乏人の社会的地位はさらに悪化する可能性がある。

2.Food is apt to deteriorate in summer.

食べ物は夏には変質するのが好きだ。

3.Police，weary and increasingly sour in mood，wonder aloud why the situation has been allowed to deteriorate .

警察官たちは疲労困憊し、気持ちもますます悪くなってきた。彼らは思わず「どうして状況によって悪化していくのか」と疑問に思った。

4.There are fears that the situation might deteriorate into full-scale war.

人々は情勢悪化の恐れを懸念して全面戦争に発展した。

5.This food will deteriorate rapidly on contact with air.

この食べ物は空気に触れると急速に悪くなる。