- 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
“All of this has been degenerating for a long time,” Melgar said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025
That level of organization and conservation of DNA suggests the Y chromosome isn’t degenerating into obsolescence, Jobling says.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 23, 2023
It’s all very well to have large estates, but I feel like degenerating into a sort of head gamekeeper and farm bailiff combined.
From The Revellers by Louis Tracy
