What is the meaning of deteriorate?
1 : to make inferior in quality or value : impair Exposure to sunlight may deteriorate the paint. 2 : disintegrate. intransitive verb. : to become impaired in quality, functioning, or condition : degenerate allowed a tradition of academic excellence to deteriorate his health deteriorated.
How do you pronounce deterioration?
Is the R silent in macabre?
They are equally accurate Anglicized versions of the French word. Macabre is basically pronounced [makabʁ] in French, where /ʁ/ is a voiced uvular fricative. The closest sound in English is, of course, /ɹ/ (the “r” sound, hereafter written as r). Note that there is a [bʁ] sequence at the end of the word.