has degenerated
- present perfect of degenerate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Over the past two years, the lush greenery of the marshes has degenerated and yellowed, killed by salinity building up from two years of insufficient fresh-water inflow.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
The placenta has taken over the functions of nutrition and waste and the production of estrogen and progesterone from the corpus luteum, which has degenerated.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Her sight has degenerated in recent years to the point where her Paralympic category was downgraded from S13, the least impaired of three categories of sight-impaired Paralympic swimmers, to the middle category, S12.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2021
But today this has degenerated as we see a reprise of the very narrow conception of liberty that Dewey and his contemporaries attacked as outmoded and out of step with the modern world.
From Salon ● May 31, 2020
You know it has been said that since the war our character as a whole has degenerated fearfully.
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
