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degenerate
[ verb dih-jen-uh-reyt; adjective noun dih-jen-er-it ]
verb (used without object)
- 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: , , ,
- to diminish in quality, especially from a former state of coherence, balance, integrity, etc.:
The debate degenerated into an exchange of insults.
- Pathology. to lose functional activity, as a tissue or organ.
- 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)
- to cause degeneration in; bring about a decline, deterioration, or reversion in.
adjective
- having fallen below a normal or desirable level, especially in physical or moral qualities; deteriorated; degraded:
a degenerate king.
- having lost, or become impaired with respect to, the qualities proper to the species or kind:
a degenerate vine.
- characterized by or associated with degeneracy:
degenerate times.
- Mathematics. pertaining to a limiting case of a mathematical system that is more symmetrical or simpler in form than the general case.
- Physics.
- (of modes of vibration of a system) having the same frequency.
- (of quantum states of a system) having equal energy.
noun
- a person who has declined, as in morals or character, from a type or standard considered normal.
- a person or thing that reverts to an earlier stage of culture, development, or evolution.
- a sexual deviate.
degenerate
verb
- to become degenerate
- biology (of organisms or their parts) to become less specialized or functionally useless
adjective
- having declined or deteriorated to a lower mental, moral, or physical level; debased; degraded; corrupt
- physics
- (of the constituents of a system) having the same energy but different wave functions
- (of a semiconductor) containing a similar number of electrons in the conduction band to the number of electrons in the conduction band of metals
- (of a resonant device) having two or more modes of equal frequency
- (of a code) containing symbols that represent more than one letter, figure, etc
- (of a plant or animal) having undergone degeneration
noun
- a degenerate person
Derived Forms
- ˈԱٱԱ, noun
- ˈԱٱ, adverb
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- ·İ·ٱ· adverb
- ·İ·ٱ·Ա noun
- ԴDzd·İ·ٱ adjective noun
- non·İ·ٱ· adverb
- non·İ·ٱ·Ա noun
- d·İ·ٱ adjective
- ܲd·İ·ٱ adjective
- ܲd·İ·e adjective
- ܲd·İ·iԲ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of degenerate1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of degenerate1
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.
“We’re getting into those things before there’s so much damage that the native tissue is completely degenerated,” he said.
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.
In contrast, workers are wingless females with smaller body size and degenerated reproductive tracts, usually without a sperm storage organ.
Trump has fired back at such comments, calling Kelly a “total degenerate” in a post last month on TruthSocial.
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