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deterioration

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deterioration [di‚tir·ē·ə′rā·shən]
(engineering)
Decline in the quality of equipment or structures over a period of time due to the chemical or physical action of the environment.
deterioration
Of concrete, the same as disintegration.
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No sooner can a slave society be organized than deterioration sets in.
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Admitting this to have been an ex- traordinary case of mental deterioration, it proves at least that the white slave can sink as low in the scale of humanity as the black one.
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"Moral deterioration has set in already," he remarked.
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