The patient is getting worse and worse day by day.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
每况愈下
to steadily deteriorate
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to steadily deteriorate
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 每况愈下 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 每况愈下 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
His condition got worse every day.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 每况愈下.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 每况愈下.
Directly before
- 病情每况愈下1
- 身体状况每况愈下1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 每况愈下
What does 每况愈下 mean in Chinese?
每况愈下 (měikuàngyùxià) means to steadily deteriorate.
How do you pronounce 每况愈下?
每况愈下 is pronounced měikuàngyùxià.
Is 每况愈下 an HSK word?
每况愈下 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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