degenerate
noun
- 1
One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral person.
“In the cult of degenerates, acts of decency, kindness and modesty could be seen as acts of apostasy.”
verb
- 1
To lose good or desirable qualities.
“His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital.”
- 2
To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.
adjective
- 1
(of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
- 2
(of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
- 3
(of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
- 4
Relating to degeneracy
- 5
Having the same quantum energy level.
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