Vestigial vs Deteriorate - What's the difference?
vestigial | deteriorate |
Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a trace from the past.
Not fully developed in mature animals.
To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
* Southey
To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=January 8
, author=Paul Fletcher
, title=Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle
, work=BBC
As an adjective vestigial
is of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a trace from the past.As a verb deteriorate is
to make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.vestigial
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Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* vestigial structuredeteriorate
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Verb
(deteriorat)- to deteriorate the mind
- The art of war, like every other art, ecclesiastical architecture alone excepted, was greatly deteriorated during those years of general degradation
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