How to pronounce“degenerate”in English
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Definitions of “degenerate”
Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt.
“Farwell faint-hearted and degenerate King, / In whose cold blood no sparke of Honor bides.”
One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral or corrupt person.
“In the cult of degenerates, acts of decency, kindness and modesty could be seen as acts of apostasy.”
To lose good or desirable qualities.
“His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital.”
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