deteriorated into
idiom
: to eventually become (something worse)
The disagreement deteriorated into a fight.
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The world that Arthur and his pals inhabit is often gray and crumbling; the manse of Arthur’s patron, an imposing dowager named Flora (Isabella Rossellini), is a once-beautiful edifice that has deteriorated into a series of empty rooms.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
Phil Blair, Manpower YES: The California Theatre is a perfect example of an old building that has deteriorated into ruins.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
Some decades after the painting was done, that area seems to have deteriorated into small islands of paint and become less clear due to the constituent parts of the paint.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2023
The elites of the previous generation had asserted that descendants of the Aztec, Maya and other civilizations deteriorated into poverty and abandon.
—Merilee Grindle, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
At the end the show predictably deteriorated into a wrestling match, dragging everyone down into the swamp.
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
The graveyard of kitchen fads is wide and deep, littered with the domestic equivalent of white dwarf stars that blazed with astonishing luminosity for a moment and then deteriorated into space junk.
—Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 12 July 2023
The 200-year-old building deteriorated into disrepair and was given over to the municipality after its previous owners died, the newspaper reported.
—Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Oct. 2020
The incident has sparked widespread protests in the city, some of which have deteriorated into arson, looting, and other rioting.
—Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 25 Aug. 2020
David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
Phil Blair, Manpower YES: The California Theatre is a perfect example of an old building that has deteriorated into ruins.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
Some decades after the painting was done, that area seems to have deteriorated into small islands of paint and become less clear due to the constituent parts of the paint.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2023
The elites of the previous generation had asserted that descendants of the Aztec, Maya and other civilizations deteriorated into poverty and abandon.
—Merilee Grindle, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
At the end the show predictably deteriorated into a wrestling match, dragging everyone down into the swamp.
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
The graveyard of kitchen fads is wide and deep, littered with the domestic equivalent of white dwarf stars that blazed with astonishing luminosity for a moment and then deteriorated into space junk.
—Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 12 July 2023
The 200-year-old building deteriorated into disrepair and was given over to the municipality after its previous owners died, the newspaper reported.
—Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Oct. 2020
The incident has sparked widespread protests in the city, some of which have deteriorated into arson, looting, and other rioting.
—Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 25 Aug. 2020
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