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degenerate

[ verb dih-jen-uh-reyt; adjective noun dih-jen-er-it ]

verb (used without object)

degenerated, degenerating.
  1. to fall below a normal or desirable level in physical, mental, or moral qualities; deteriorate:

    The morale of the soldiers degenerated, and they were unable to fight.

    Synonyms: , , ,

  2. to diminish in quality, especially from a former state of coherence, balance, integrity, etc.:

    The debate degenerated into an exchange of insults.

  3. Pathology. to lose functional activity, as a tissue or organ.
  4. Evolution. (of a species or any of its traits or structures) to revert to a simple, less highly organized, or less functionally active type, as a parasitic plant that has lost its taproot or the vestigial wings of a flightless bird.


verb (used with object)

degenerated, degenerating.
  1. to cause degeneration in; bring about a decline, deterioration, or reversion in.

adjective

  1. having fallen below a normal or desirable level, especially in physical or moral qualities; deteriorated; degraded:

    a degenerate king.

  2. having lost, or become impaired with respect to, the qualities proper to the species or kind:

    a degenerate vine.

  3. characterized by or associated with degeneracy:

    degenerate times.

  4. Mathematics. pertaining to a limiting case of a mathematical system that is more symmetrical or simpler in form than the general case.
  5. Physics.
    1. (of modes of vibration of a system) having the same frequency.
    2. (of quantum states of a system) having equal energy.

noun

  1. a person who has declined, as in morals or character, from a type or standard considered normal.
  2. a person or thing that reverts to an earlier stage of culture, development, or evolution.
  3. a sexual deviate.

degenerate

verb

  1. to become degenerate
  2. biology (of organisms or their parts) to become less specialized or functionally useless
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. having declined or deteriorated to a lower mental, moral, or physical level; debased; degraded; corrupt
  2. physics
    1. (of the constituents of a system) having the same energy but different wave functions
    2. (of a semiconductor) containing a similar number of electrons in the conduction band to the number of electrons in the conduction band of metals
    3. (of a resonant device) having two or more modes of equal frequency
  3. (of a code) containing symbols that represent more than one letter, figure, etc
  4. (of a plant or animal) having undergone degeneration
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a degenerate person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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  • ˈԱٱԱ, noun
  • ˈԱٱ, adverb
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of degenerate1

First recorded in 1485–95; from Latin ŧԱٳܲ “declined,” past participle of ŧԱ “to decline from an ancestral standard, deteriorate”; equivalent to de- + generate
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of degenerate1

C15: from Latin ŧԱ, from ŧԱ departing from its kind, ignoble, from de- + genus origin, race
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Example Sentences

Fascism is always an ideology based on the belief that modern society has become weak and degenerate, and that the cure is purging certain people.

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“We’re getting into those things before there’s so much damage that the native tissue is completely degenerated,” he said.

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They quickly discovered a waste-internalizing glial canal system that undergoes structural abnormalities in degenerating spider brains, which leads to uncontrolled depletion and death of brain cells.

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In contrast, workers are wingless females with smaller body size and degenerated reproductive tracts, usually without a sperm storage organ.

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Trump has fired back at such comments, calling Kelly a “total degenerate” in a post last month on TruthSocial.

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