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degenerate | American Dictionary

degenerate
verb[ I ]
us/dɪˈdʒen·əˌreɪt/
to become worse:
Standards of courtesy have degenerated since I was a girl.
degenerate
adjective
us/dɪˈdʒen·ər·ət/
bad or worse in quality or character, or (of a person) morally bad:
He was a lazy, degenerate young man.

Examples of degenerate

degenerate
Neurochemical architecture of the normal and degenerating rat retina.
In this bifurcation the geometrical splitting of the tangent space is preserved but the expansion in the unstable direction degenerates near a periodic orbit.
The original world-making power, physis, degenerates into a prototype to be copied and imitated.
The dialectic protects them from "degenerating" to the level of simple ancillary representations.
After 48 h following microinjection none of the total of 36 embryos developed to blastocyst stage, they were cleavagearrested and subsequently degenerated.
Oocytes that had degenerated or those with degenerating signs as indicated by darkening cytoplasm were not included.
Oocytes with abnormal configurations of condensed chromosomes were classified as degenerating oocytes.
An electron microscope study of normal and degenerating centrifugal fiber terminals in the pigeon retina.
Are the non-healthy isolated cells degenerating or undergoing apoptosis?
However, a few follicles had been invaded by many erythrocytes, and the oocytes in those follicles had degenerated.
Indeed, "man with two heads" and "scatter for we head" mean ruthlessness and the extent to which things have degenerated.
Whenever the closure of a certain spectral gap degenerates to a point, this point is called a collapsed spectral gap.
After feeding for many months, the larva pupates and the active nutritive tissue degenerates.
Many of them were degenerating, the cell death being unrelated to the fixation technique.
Mapping photoreceptor and post-receptoral function using a channel permeable probe during development in the normal and degenerating rat retina.
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