Degenerate(a.) Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low.
Degenerate(v. i.) To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate.
Degenerate(v. i.) To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.
Degenerated(imp. & p. p.) of Degenerate
Degenerately(adv.) In a degenerate manner; unworthily.
Degenerateness(n.) Degeneracy.
Degenerating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Degenerate
Degeneration(n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.
Degeneration(n.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver.
Degeneration(n.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
Degeneration(n.) The thing degenerated.
Degenerous(a.) Degenerate; base.
Degenerously(adv.) Basely.
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