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degenerative

adjective as in tending to diminish in quality

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In this degenerative illness, patients lose the function of the left half of their brain.

I learned that he had a degenerative disease and might not live long enough even to finish his Ph.D. degree.

The cop had read a newspaper story about Lanza, and had a teenage son who was slowly going blind from a degenerative eye disease.

He was elevated by hope for an antidote to what felt like a toxic, degenerative condition.

Any epithelial cell may be so granular from degenerative changes that the nucleus is obscured.

As with the grown woman, so with the child, the degenerative form of hysteria makes those subject to it untrustworthy witnesses.

What influences of a degenerative nature are likely to affect them?

But, as will presently be shown, a change of direction cannot take place at every stage of the degenerative process.

The condition, moreover, has a tendency to set into action degenerative tendencies latent in the liver and kidneys.

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to degenerative, such as: backward, deteriorating, regressive, retrogressive, declinatory, and depressive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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