dégénérer

Nelson, attends. Désolé que la soirée ait dégénéré.
I'm sorry the party devolved into this.
On ne peut, malheureusement, s'étonner du fait que, aujourd'hui, face à une inertie coupable - de la part, aussi, des institutions de l'Union européenne - la situation ait dégénéré et que l'on soit passé à la logique des armes.
It is, unfortunately, not surprising that now, in the face of such culpable inertia on the part of the EU institutions among others, the situation has degenerated and those involved have taken up arms.
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