- present participle of degenerate.
degenerating
Example Sentences
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Not to get too philosophical, but everything alive is degenerating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
The findings offer new insight into how bone cells may influence pain signaling in degenerating spines.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 23, 2026
A subtle pathos, along with the playwright’s verbal sophistication, prevents the play from degenerating into a collegiate vaudeville.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2025
“The idea that the Y is still degenerating and destined to disappear is really scotched by this.”
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 23, 2023
Her old assurance had deserted her; the strangulated contralto was losing its magic power, she felt, in this degenerating England it had ruled so long.
From Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
