Crossword-Solution: DEGENERATIVE 12 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

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Degenerative a. Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to
degenerate.

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of, relating to, involving, or causing degeneration 1 answer
infirm 33 answers
incurable 46 answers
diseased 55 answers
festering 55 answers
dying 61 answers
infectious 62 answers
Decrepit 64 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
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greedy person
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Sentences with DEGENERATIVE (5)

But he evidently wasn’t aware of the degenerative nature of his changes as he sat there, looking suddenly quite little under my eyes.
Tono-Bungay H.G. Wells 1996
Hemeralopia (etymologically day-blindness, but by common usage meaning day-vision or night-blindness) is a symptom of a peculiar degenerative disease of the retina, called retinitis pigmentosa.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996
But, as will presently be shown, a change of direction cannot take place at EVERY stage of the degenerative process.
Darwin and Modern Science A.C. Seward and Others 1999
Kollmann regards existing human races as derived from small primitive races (pigmies), and considers that Homo primigenius must have arisen in a secondary and degenerative manner.
Darwin and Modern Science A.C. Seward and Others 1999
Perhaps generally the term "chronic myocarditis" is incorrect, as a real inflammatory condition is not present and has not been present; it is really a degenerative process with the development of connective tissue, a fibrosis and more or less hardening of the arterioles, a cardiosclerosis.
DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART OLIVER T. OSBORNE, A.M., M.D. 2003

Quotes with DEGENERATIVE (3)

Without world unification the species would destroy itself by the enlarged powers that had come to it. This, said the men of science, is no theory, no political alternative; it is a statement of fact. Men had to pool their political, economic and educational lives. There was no other way for them but a series of degenerative phases leading very plainly to extinction. They could not revert now. They had to go on — up or down. They had gone too far with civilisation and in soci…
H. G. Wells The Holy Terror
Do you know what guerrillas often say? They claim that their rebellions are invulnerable to economic warfare because they have no economy, that they are parasitic on those they would overthrow. The fools merely fail to access the coin in which they must inevitably pay. The pattern is inexorable in its degenerative failures. You see it repeated in the systems of slavery, of welfare states, of caste-ridden religions, of socializing bureaucracies -- in any system in which create…
Frank Herbert God Emperor of Dune
Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway.
Stephen Hawking