Definition of "deteriorating" []

• Getting worse (adjective)
• Present participle of deteriorate. (verb)

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• "The editor's forum met late last month with a government minister to discuss what it called "deteriorating relations" with the government's communications arm."
• "President Obama quietly announced a surge of his own this week, promising to send 17,000 additional troops to stabilize what he called the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan."
• "But in his remarks at the high level meeting, bond sited what he called a deteriorating situation in Iraq noting the flow of refugees out of the war-ravaged country."