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Degenerative   Listen
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Degenerative  adj.  Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Degenerative" Quotes from Famous Books



... from the degenerative liquefaction of normal or diseased tissues, especially of tumors of different kinds, followed by ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

... through its degenerative effect on personality and the lowered ideals of marriage it induces, has a real effect in bringing about desertion. The "other man" and the "other woman" type of desertion, however, is often itself only a consequence of a previously existing state of temperamental or sexual incompatibility. ...
— Broken Homes - A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment • Joanna C. Colcord

... mainly of cellulose which were brown and crumbling with age. The sheets were covered with runes of lingua antiqua arranged in regular rows, inscribed by hand with a carbon-based ink which has persisted remarkably well despite the degenerative processes of time. Although much of the manuscript is illegible, sufficient remains to settle for all time the Dannar-Marraket Controversy and lend important corroborating evidence to the ...
— The Issahar Artifacts • Jesse Franklin Bone



Words linked to "Degenerative" :   degenerative joint disease, degenerate, degenerative arthritis



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