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What does deteriorative mean?

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Adjective
  1. Causing deterioration.
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According to Hillman as well as Hillman and Ursprung, liberalization has a deteriorative effect on economic performance until a cultural adaptation takes place.
Kahlo died, probably of a complication of pneumonia, the last in a cascade of deteriorative maladies, a year after the opening of her first solo exhibition in Mexico.
Ingredients of non-agricultural origin are limited during processing and the use of irradiation for the control of pests and deteriorative changes is not permitted, but this does not mean they are necessarily less safe.
The temperature of the food is reduced to slow deterioration of the food either through bacterial growth retardation or inactivation of enzymes with deteriorative effects.
Perceptions have changed about HIV disease being a progressive, deteriorative and terminal illness with no effective treatment.
Lower glycogen content and higher lactate content in postmortem muscle were correlated with deteriorative pork quality.

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