Usually means: Deteriorating in quality or function.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word degenerating:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. degenerating: Merriam-Webster
  2. degenerating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. degenerating: Vocabulary.com
  4. degenerating: Wordnik
  5. degenerating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. degenerating: Wiktionary
  7. Degenerating, degenerating: Dictionary.com
  8. degenerating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Degenerating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Degenerating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. degenerating: FreeDictionary.org
  12. degenerating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. degenerating: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. degenerating: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. degenerating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. degenerating: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (degenerate)

adjective:  (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
adjective:  (of a person or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt.
adjective:  Having lost functionality in general.
adjective:  (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
adjective:  (mathematics) Qualitatively different, usually simpler, than typical objects of its class.
adjective:  (mathematics, of an eigenvalue) Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors.
adjective:  (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.
noun:  One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral or corrupt person.
verb:  (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.
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