- 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
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
They also looked at the fly equivalent of microglia, called ensheathing glia, whose primary function is to remove neural debris, such as degenerating axons.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2023
“The idea that the Y is still degenerating and destined to disappear is really scotched by this.”
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 23, 2023
Your system of private information is degenerating into private persecution, and would at last establish a state of things perfectly intolerable.
From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Charles James Lever
