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Word entry · 12 letters

degeneration

Best crossword clue

"simpler form"

12 letters · collected on this word page

12 lettersPronunciation /dɪˌdʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/Part of speech nounSorted adeeeginnortStarts with DEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form

Word origin

From French dégénération, from Latin dēgenerātiō.

Used in a sentence

  • The modern cry of "more liberty and less creed" is a degeneration from a vertebrate to a jellyfish.
  • Hence, regional soil degenerations and podsolization was probably an important factor contributing to the retrogressive change in the forest composition at the end of the mesocratic phase..
  • Emmanuel Macron sounded like a man in grief. Not angry, not defiant, just a little triste. Europe, he lamented, was suffering a “degeneration of democracy”.

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