[Ads-l] "deteriorate" as transitive

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

> On Feb 12, 2016, at 11:40 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Untold Stories of the E.R., a doctor says,
> "I started to be afraid that all those shocks had begun to _deteriorate his condition_."
> The patient's pace-maker/defibrillator was shocking his heart.

on my blog:

7/31/11: Undermining the Army:
http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/undermining-the-army/

modestly common -- and the transitive is historically older.

arnold
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