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Degeneration
/dɪˌdʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/
The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
📖 Definitions of "Degeneration"
noun
- 1
The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
- 2
That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure.
"fatty degeneration of the liver"
- 3
Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
- 4
A thing that has degenerated.
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