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Degeneration

/dɪˌdʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/

The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.

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noun
  1. 1

    The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.

  2. 2

    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.

    "fatty degeneration of the liver"

  3. 3

    Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.

  4. 4

    A thing that has degenerated.

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