- present participle of degenerate.
degenerating
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Not to get too philosophical, but everything alive is degenerating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 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
Finally, they showed that after actually damaging olfactory neurons, the ensheathing glia could not remove the degenerating axons in the flies on the high sugar diet because their Draper levels did not increase.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2023
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
The air became charged with Rutlandshire Morningtons, and our conversation showed signs of degenerating into a fantastic Burke's Auction Bridge.
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by Stephen McKenna
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