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degeneration

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Kids with the disorder have a busted enzyme that causes slow degeneration of neurons.

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Quick take

the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality

Meaning at a glance

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noun

the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality

noun

the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

noun

passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for degeneration.

noun

the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality

See also: devolution

noun

passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form

See also: retrogression

Example sentences

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Kids with the disorder have a busted enzyme that causes slow degeneration of neurons.

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My father is age 92, and in 2001 he lost his central vision to macular degeneration.

3

The degeneration you fear sounds like a fine alternative to me. I'd rather deal with happy drunks than stressed out angry workers.

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This system has led to a progressive degeneration where only friends and family of powerful party members are listed.

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I believe the primary cause of comment degeneration is celebrity.

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This light exposure is a widely used and accepted means of inducing retinal degeneration in animals.

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Treatment for some forms of age-related macular degeneration used to be limited to one eye, because being blinded is bad, but being blinded in one eye is not as bad.

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Call me skeptical, but this is yet another sign of the degeneration of Western civilization and the indoctrination of being apathetic.

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How do you use degeneration in a sentence?

Kids with the disorder have a busted enzyme that causes slow degeneration of neurons.

What does degeneration mean?

the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality

What part of speech is degeneration?

degeneration is commonly used as noun.