Definition of degenerate in English:

degenerate

adjective dɪˈdʒɛn(ə)rətdəˈdʒɛn(ə)rət

1Having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline.
衰退的，堕落的
a degenerate form of a higher civilization
高等文明的衰退形式。
Example sentencesExamples
- The adult characters are weak, degenerate people, and the junior partners descend into the mire with terrifying speed and realism.
- For him they were very real and very degenerate.
- Although Trotsky considered the Soviet Union as a degenerate worker's state, it was far from it.
- The debtors have owed the creditors £50 million for years but believed, with a Christian trust rare in these degenerate days, that they had been forgiven the debt.
- What kind of degenerate slimeball would knowingly infect his own people with a known carcinogen?
- The exhibitors tried as much as possible to portray a degenerate image of the conquered peoples of Africa in order to justify their own imperialist adventures.
- Nor is it good to offer women to butter-bellied Falstaff, too ugly and degenerate to be desirable.
- There are theories about the cosmos, theories about degenerate beings, karma and all sorts of other issues.
- Their message about humanity is even more degenerate and degraded than that spouted by the previous administration.
- The main forms of corruption in the eyes of the locals are bribe-taking, a degenerate life-style and unreasonable fines inflicted on locals.
- Could you be a more horrible, degenerate monster?
- A group of people - some of whom are reading this review - that find themselves on the wet end of a degenerate culture.
- I am shamed over the disgrace imposed upon us by a degenerate murderer.
- For him, adultery is considered a degenerate act, yet so is divorce.
- No society's moral vision has ever, surely, been more degenerate than that.
- Today I spent most of my time programming, or scripting (which is a degenerate form, I suppose,) which is not usually what I do.
- After being injected with a truth serum, Catherine tells the story of her partner's death that features a central character more degenerate than decent.
- The psychologist also put forward an alternative theory that the killer could be fixated on ‘cleaning up what he sees as degenerate people’.
- He broke his silence: ‘You know, if word gets around that you saw me here, it'll ruin my reputation as a degenerate junkie.’
- It is not surprising that knowledge of one's own mental state should turn out to be a limiting or degenerate case of knowledge.
Synonyms
debased, degraded, corrupt, corrupted, vitiated, bastard, impure
2technical Lacking some usual or expected property or quality.
Synonyms
corrupt, decadent, dissolute, dissipated, debauched, rakish, reprobate, profligate, depraved, perverted, despicable, base, vice-ridden, wicked, sinful, ungodly
1. 2.1Mathematics (of a type of equation, curve, etc.) equivalent to a simpler type, especially when a variable or parameter is set to zero.
  〔数〕退化的
  Example sentencesExamples
  This point is labelled A 3b, to emphasize that it is a degenerate quadrilateral.
  At x 5 = 1 we obtain the degenerate symmetric case of a triangle traversed twice.
  If the planes pass through the vertex of the cone, the conics are said to be degenerate, otherwise they are not.
  Joining the four points in pairs by lines gives six lines; pairing the six lines in three pairs so that each pair passes through all four points yields the three degenerate conies.
  There was another parallelogram - a smallish and a degenerate one - that is often omitted in reproductions.
2. 2.2Physics (of an energy level) corresponding to more than one quantum state.
  〔物理〕简并的
  Example sentencesExamples
  We say that the excited state is degenerate, i.e., there are three sets of quantum numbers which give the same energy.
  The trick is to take advantage of degenerate states where quantum energy fluctuations are absent.
  Energetic frustration arises from the presence of competing interactions, which are degenerate in energy.
  A set of degenerate states constitutes an energy level.
  For example, the p orbital has three possible angular momentum quantum states that are degenerate (of the same energy) under normal circumstances.
3. 2.3Physics (of matter) at densities so high that gravitational contraction is counteracted, either by the Pauli exclusion principle or by an analogous quantum effect between closely packed neutrons.
  〔物理〕衰退的
  Example sentencesExamples
  The collapsed core will become a white dwarf, composed of degenerate matter supported by the inability of two electrons to occupy the same space.
  Atoms that are compressed into this minimum volume are said to be in a degenerate state.
  The pressure maintained by a body of degenerate matter is called the degeneracy pressure.
  The pressure due to the ions can then be treated as an ideal gas, but the pressure due to the degenerate electrons is much larger and hence the gas obeys a different equation of state.
4. 2.4Biology Having reverted to a simpler form as a result of losing a complex or adaptive structure present in the ancestral form.
  〔生〕简并的，退化的
  degenerate offshoots from the main line of vertebrate progress
  Example sentencesExamples
  A partly degenerate consensus sequence was created from the Aspergillus and Penicillium sequences to evaluate the statistical significance of this alignment.
  This region was found to consist of degenerate heptanucleotide repeats that fold into a hairpin structure allowing base pairing of the repeats.
  Therefore, under our conditions, we may not detect up to 13.4% degenerate copies of this repetitive DNA motif in the mitochondrial genome.
  Y chromosomes are genetically degenerate in most organisms studied.
  The coding sequences of most characterized plant retroelements are highly degenerate and are cluttered with stop codons, frameshifts, and deletions.

noun dɪˈdʒɛn(ə)rətdəˈdʒɛn(ə)rət

An immoral or corrupt person.
堕落者
get out of my house, you degenerate!
Example sentencesExamples
- But while they helped launch a revolution that has reshaped much of society, cross-dressers still wait for the day when they will no longer be dismissed as freaks and degenerates.
- On my demanding table, comprising 10 degenerates and one discerning aesthete, virtually everybody was going for mussels followed by venison with roasted root vegetables.
- I think the most important thing is not to tell the youngsters that they are degenerates if they listen to pop folk, but instil in them the importance of our culture and traditions.
- These articles portrayed the band as obscene perverts and degenerates.
- The city has become a magnet for degenerates of all kind.
- What kind of a psychopathic degenerate would do it?
- ‘If we do not take action to overcome the obstacles that confront us, only one word can be used to describe those working in the field: degenerates,’ he wrote.
- Let the nation cleanse itself of its degenerates, its traitors, its thugs.
- While the hobos, degenerates and backpackers passed by (you need a keen eye to tell the difference), we chatted for a while about this and that.
- The general consensus of outsiders is that the town is a place of degenerates.
- In the end, what really happened was a bunch of degenerates who loved being lazy began working so hard that they had to start making plans for so-called careers in the music business.
- When all you do is have big fun, you usually turn into a degenerate.
- As an atheist I'm getting sick of the fanaticism of these degenerates.
- This will remove control of the cannabis industry from criminal degenerates - but it will create serious public health issues that the government had better be ready to deal with.
- Long aware that he was a Machiavellian degenerate, the University dismissed him and suggested he leave the country.
- We are smarter than to put you social degenerates in power.
- This is because they are degenerates, and likely violent.
- He becomes a total degenerate, as did Faust, and, like Faust, he has sold his soul and is shocked when it comes time for him to die and he is condemned rather than exalted.
Synonyms
reprobate, debauchee, rake, profligate, libertine, roué, loose-liver
pervert, deviant, deviate
informal perv
rare retrograde, dissolute

verb dɪˈdʒɛnəreɪtdəˈdʒɛnəˌreɪt

[no object]

Decline or deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally.
退化，减退；堕落，变坏
the quality of life had degenerated
生活质量早已下降。
the debate degenerated into a brawl
辩论沦为一场争吵。
Example sentencesExamples
- Our capital city is slowly degenerating into a gangland.
- These last few comments are degenerating into a mob attack on a young designer.
- Sense is inevitably degenerating into nonsense, like a pileup of random mutations in an endangered species gasping its last breaths.
- The bone system could have degenerated and a similar degeneration in the neck bones can cause unsteadiness and giddiness.
- Their protest degenerated into an ugly scene where they traded blows with council workers who were supposed to collect the levy.
- Certainly as this drama deepens, each character bypasses normal human interaction degenerating into deviant behavior.
- There was a time that I found your comments amusing, however recently you have degenerated into farce and hypocrisy.
- Once there were beliefs, these degenerated into ideas, then into ideologies.
- Civility is an essential virtue in a free society, for without it, both free market capitalism and liberal democracy risk degenerating into anarchy or repression.
- While he continues to place obstacles in the path of negotiations, the situation on the ground is degenerating.
- They'll have to agree to disagree: I don't want my comments section degenerating into a snarling fist-fight again.
- His skeletal frame has degenerated to that of a 70 year old.
- So is it also true that our ability to appreciate and make a perceptive assessment has also degenerated?
- The second period degenerated to bad tempered aggression with a referee reluctant to impose adequate discipline.
- Mentally, he probably degenerated to the point where his main concerns are the basic human instincts.
- As a result, innovation has degenerated into developing new electoral tactics.
- Now, usually, people with rational views of the world are able to prevent policy from degenerating into such suicidally savage behavior.
- In the past, anti-corruption drives sometimes degenerated into, or masked, power struggles.
- Elections have degenerated into a choice between two evils, and your only option is the lesser evil.
- From there, the interview degenerated, and I wasn't surprised when I wasn't offered the job.
Synonyms
deteriorate, decline, sink, slip, slide, worsen, get/grow worse, take a turn for the worse, lapse, fail, fall off, slump, go downhill, regress, retrogress
decay, rot, go to rack and ruin
informal go to pot, go to the dogs, hit the skids, go down the tubes, go down the toilet
Australian/New Zealand informal go to the pack
rare retrograde, devolve
waste away, waste, atrophy, weaken, become debilitated

Derivatives

degenerately

adverb

He plasters himself all over the guilty pleasures in which he so degenerately indulges.
Example sentencesExamples
- The degenerately doped metallic GaAs matrix allowed the visualization of the magnetotransport through anomalous Hall effect.
- Specifically, electron scattering and transport models are developed for the degenerately doped conditions necessary for very-high-frequency diode operation.
- This exploration of the trash of the 20th century proposes a more underground and degenerately perverse origin and use of the medium.

Origin

Late 15th century: from Latin degeneratus 'no longer of its kind', from the verb degenerare, from degener 'debased', from de- 'away from' + genus, gener- 'race, kind'.

gender from Late Middle English:
The words gender and engender (Middle English) go back via Old French to Latin genus ‘birth, family, nation’, a word that was reborrowed in the early 17th century for scientific classification, although it had been in use 50 years earlier in logic. In modern French the ‘d’ was lost to produce genre, a word reborrowed in the early 19th century. Generation (Middle English), generate (early 16th century), engender (Middle English), generosity (Late Middle English), genial (mid 16th century), and degenerate (Late Middle English) are all from the same source.

Rhymes

regenerate

Definition of degenerate in US English:

degenerate

adjectivedəˈjen(ə)rətdəˈdʒɛn(ə)rət

1Having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline.
衰退的，堕落的
a degenerate form of a higher civilization
高等文明的衰退形式。
Example sentencesExamples
- For him they were very real and very degenerate.
- Could you be a more horrible, degenerate monster?
- Their message about humanity is even more degenerate and degraded than that spouted by the previous administration.
- What kind of degenerate slimeball would knowingly infect his own people with a known carcinogen?
- The adult characters are weak, degenerate people, and the junior partners descend into the mire with terrifying speed and realism.
- The main forms of corruption in the eyes of the locals are bribe-taking, a degenerate life-style and unreasonable fines inflicted on locals.
- For him, adultery is considered a degenerate act, yet so is divorce.
- The debtors have owed the creditors £50 million for years but believed, with a Christian trust rare in these degenerate days, that they had been forgiven the debt.
- The exhibitors tried as much as possible to portray a degenerate image of the conquered peoples of Africa in order to justify their own imperialist adventures.
- He broke his silence: ‘You know, if word gets around that you saw me here, it'll ruin my reputation as a degenerate junkie.’
- Today I spent most of my time programming, or scripting (which is a degenerate form, I suppose,) which is not usually what I do.
- I am shamed over the disgrace imposed upon us by a degenerate murderer.
- No society's moral vision has ever, surely, been more degenerate than that.
- After being injected with a truth serum, Catherine tells the story of her partner's death that features a central character more degenerate than decent.
- The psychologist also put forward an alternative theory that the killer could be fixated on ‘cleaning up what he sees as degenerate people’.
- It is not surprising that knowledge of one's own mental state should turn out to be a limiting or degenerate case of knowledge.
- Nor is it good to offer women to butter-bellied Falstaff, too ugly and degenerate to be desirable.
- There are theories about the cosmos, theories about degenerate beings, karma and all sorts of other issues.
- A group of people - some of whom are reading this review - that find themselves on the wet end of a degenerate culture.
- Although Trotsky considered the Soviet Union as a degenerate worker's state, it was far from it.
Synonyms
debased, degraded, corrupt, corrupted, vitiated, bastard, impure
2technical Lacking some property, order, or distinctness of structure previously or usually present.
〈技〉退化的，尤指
Synonyms
corrupt, decadent, dissolute, dissipated, debauched, rakish, reprobate, profligate, depraved, perverted, despicable, base, vice-ridden, wicked, sinful, ungodly
1. 2.1Mathematics Relating to or denoting an example of a particular type of equation, curve, or other entity that is equivalent to a simpler type, often occurring when a variable or parameter is set to zero.
  〔数〕退化的
  Example sentencesExamples
  There was another parallelogram - a smallish and a degenerate one - that is often omitted in reproductions.
  If the planes pass through the vertex of the cone, the conics are said to be degenerate, otherwise they are not.
  This point is labelled A 3b, to emphasize that it is a degenerate quadrilateral.
  At x 5 = 1 we obtain the degenerate symmetric case of a triangle traversed twice.
  Joining the four points in pairs by lines gives six lines; pairing the six lines in three pairs so that each pair passes through all four points yields the three degenerate conies.
2. 2.2Physics Relating to or denoting an energy level that corresponds to more than one quantum state.
  〔物理〕简并的
  Example sentencesExamples
  A set of degenerate states constitutes an energy level.
  For example, the p orbital has three possible angular momentum quantum states that are degenerate (of the same energy) under normal circumstances.
  Energetic frustration arises from the presence of competing interactions, which are degenerate in energy.
  The trick is to take advantage of degenerate states where quantum energy fluctuations are absent.
  We say that the excited state is degenerate, i.e., there are three sets of quantum numbers which give the same energy.
3. 2.3Physics Relating to or denoting matter at densities so high that gravitational contraction is counteracted either by the Pauli exclusion principle or by an analogous quantum effect between closely packed neutrons.
  〔物理〕衰退的
  Example sentencesExamples
  The pressure maintained by a body of degenerate matter is called the degeneracy pressure.
  The collapsed core will become a white dwarf, composed of degenerate matter supported by the inability of two electrons to occupy the same space.
  Atoms that are compressed into this minimum volume are said to be in a degenerate state.
  The pressure due to the ions can then be treated as an ideal gas, but the pressure due to the degenerate electrons is much larger and hence the gas obeys a different equation of state.
4. 2.4Biology Having reverted to a simpler form as a result of losing a complex or adaptive structure present in the ancestral form.
  〔生〕简并的，退化的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Y chromosomes are genetically degenerate in most organisms studied.
  The coding sequences of most characterized plant retroelements are highly degenerate and are cluttered with stop codons, frameshifts, and deletions.
  This region was found to consist of degenerate heptanucleotide repeats that fold into a hairpin structure allowing base pairing of the repeats.
  Therefore, under our conditions, we may not detect up to 13.4% degenerate copies of this repetitive DNA motif in the mitochondrial genome.
  A partly degenerate consensus sequence was created from the Aspergillus and Penicillium sequences to evaluate the statistical significance of this alignment.

noundəˈjen(ə)rətdəˈdʒɛn(ə)rət

An immoral or corrupt person.
堕落者
Example sentencesExamples
- These articles portrayed the band as obscene perverts and degenerates.
- ‘If we do not take action to overcome the obstacles that confront us, only one word can be used to describe those working in the field: degenerates,’ he wrote.
- Long aware that he was a Machiavellian degenerate, the University dismissed him and suggested he leave the country.
- In the end, what really happened was a bunch of degenerates who loved being lazy began working so hard that they had to start making plans for so-called careers in the music business.
- This is because they are degenerates, and likely violent.
- What kind of a psychopathic degenerate would do it?
- The general consensus of outsiders is that the town is a place of degenerates.
- Let the nation cleanse itself of its degenerates, its traitors, its thugs.
- He becomes a total degenerate, as did Faust, and, like Faust, he has sold his soul and is shocked when it comes time for him to die and he is condemned rather than exalted.
- On my demanding table, comprising 10 degenerates and one discerning aesthete, virtually everybody was going for mussels followed by venison with roasted root vegetables.
- As an atheist I'm getting sick of the fanaticism of these degenerates.
- This will remove control of the cannabis industry from criminal degenerates - but it will create serious public health issues that the government had better be ready to deal with.
- But while they helped launch a revolution that has reshaped much of society, cross-dressers still wait for the day when they will no longer be dismissed as freaks and degenerates.
- The city has become a magnet for degenerates of all kind.
- While the hobos, degenerates and backpackers passed by (you need a keen eye to tell the difference), we chatted for a while about this and that.
- When all you do is have big fun, you usually turn into a degenerate.
- I think the most important thing is not to tell the youngsters that they are degenerates if they listen to pop folk, but instil in them the importance of our culture and traditions.
- We are smarter than to put you social degenerates in power.
Synonyms
reprobate, debauchee, rake, profligate, libertine, roué, loose-liver

verbdəˈdʒɛnəˌreɪtdəˈjenəˌrāt

[no object]

Decline or deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally.
退化，减退；堕落，变坏
the quality of life had degenerated
生活质量早已下降。
the debate degenerated into a brawl
辩论沦为一场争吵。
Example sentencesExamples
- Sense is inevitably degenerating into nonsense, like a pileup of random mutations in an endangered species gasping its last breaths.
- Once there were beliefs, these degenerated into ideas, then into ideologies.
- Mentally, he probably degenerated to the point where his main concerns are the basic human instincts.
- So is it also true that our ability to appreciate and make a perceptive assessment has also degenerated?
- As a result, innovation has degenerated into developing new electoral tactics.
- From there, the interview degenerated, and I wasn't surprised when I wasn't offered the job.
- They'll have to agree to disagree: I don't want my comments section degenerating into a snarling fist-fight again.
- Our capital city is slowly degenerating into a gangland.
- These last few comments are degenerating into a mob attack on a young designer.
- Now, usually, people with rational views of the world are able to prevent policy from degenerating into such suicidally savage behavior.
- The bone system could have degenerated and a similar degeneration in the neck bones can cause unsteadiness and giddiness.
- Civility is an essential virtue in a free society, for without it, both free market capitalism and liberal democracy risk degenerating into anarchy or repression.
- There was a time that I found your comments amusing, however recently you have degenerated into farce and hypocrisy.
- Certainly as this drama deepens, each character bypasses normal human interaction degenerating into deviant behavior.
- Elections have degenerated into a choice between two evils, and your only option is the lesser evil.
- The second period degenerated to bad tempered aggression with a referee reluctant to impose adequate discipline.
- Their protest degenerated into an ugly scene where they traded blows with council workers who were supposed to collect the levy.
- In the past, anti-corruption drives sometimes degenerated into, or masked, power struggles.
- While he continues to place obstacles in the path of negotiations, the situation on the ground is degenerating.
- His skeletal frame has degenerated to that of a 70 year old.
Synonyms
deteriorate, decline, sink, slip, slide, worsen, get worse, grow worse, take a turn for the worse, lapse, fail, fall off, slump, go downhill, regress, retrogress
waste away, waste, atrophy, weaken, become debilitated

Origin

Late 15th century: from Latin degeneratus ‘no longer of its kind’, from the verb degenerare, from degener ‘debased’, from de- ‘away from’ + genus, gener- ‘race, kind’.

词汇	degenerate
释义	Definition of degenerate in English: degenerate adjective dɪˈdʒɛn(ə)rətdəˈdʒɛn(ə)rət 1Having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline. 衰退的，堕落的 a degenerate form of a higher civilization 高等文明的衰退形式。 Example sentencesExamples The adult characters are weak, degenerate people, and the junior partners descend into the mire with terrifying speed and realism. For him they were very real and very degenerate. Although Trotsky considered the Soviet Union as a degenerate worker's state, it was far from it. The debtors have owed the creditors £50 million for years but believed, with a Christian trust rare in these degenerate days, that they had been forgiven the debt. What kind of degenerate slimeball would knowingly infect his own people with a known carcinogen? The exhibitors tried as much as possible to portray a degenerate image of the conquered peoples of Africa in order to justify their own imperialist adventures. Nor is it good to offer women to butter-bellied Falstaff, too ugly and degenerate to be desirable. There are theories about the cosmos, theories about degenerate beings, karma and all sorts of other issues. Their message about humanity is even more degenerate and degraded than that spouted by the previous administration. The main forms of corruption in the eyes of the locals are bribe-taking, a degenerate life-style and unreasonable fines inflicted on locals. Could you be a more horrible, degenerate monster? A group of people - some of whom are reading this review - that find themselves on the wet end of a degenerate culture. I am shamed over the disgrace imposed upon us by a degenerate murderer. For him, adultery is considered a degenerate act, yet so is divorce. No society's moral vision has ever, surely, been more degenerate than that. Today I spent most of my time programming, or scripting (which is a degenerate form, I suppose,) which is not usually what I do. After being injected with a truth serum, Catherine tells the story of her partner's death that features a central character more degenerate than decent. The psychologist also put forward an alternative theory that the killer could be fixated on ‘cleaning up what he sees as degenerate people’. He broke his silence: ‘You know, if word gets around that you saw me here, it'll ruin my reputation as a degenerate junkie.’ It is not surprising that knowledge of one's own mental state should turn out to be a limiting or degenerate case of knowledge. Synonyms debased, degraded, corrupt, corrupted, vitiated, bastard, impure 2technical Lacking some usual or expected property or quality. Synonyms corrupt, decadent, dissolute, dissipated, debauched, rakish, reprobate, profligate, depraved, perverted, despicable, base, vice-ridden, wicked, sinful, ungodly 2.1Mathematics (of a type of equation, curve, etc.) equivalent to a simpler type, especially when a variable or parameter is set to zero. 〔数〕退化的 Example sentencesExamples This point is labelled A 3b, to emphasize that it is a degenerate quadrilateral. At x 5 = 1 we obtain the degenerate symmetric case of a triangle traversed twice. If the planes pass through the vertex of the cone, the conics are said to be degenerate, otherwise they are not. Joining the four points in pairs by lines gives six lines; pairing the six lines in three pairs so that each pair passes through all four points yields the three degenerate conies. There was another parallelogram - a smallish and a degenerate one - that is often omitted in reproductions. 2.2Physics (of an energy level) corresponding to more than one quantum state. 〔物理〕简并的 Example sentencesExamples We say that the excited state is degenerate, i.e., there are three sets of quantum numbers which give the same energy. The trick is to take advantage of degenerate states where quantum energy fluctuations are absent. Energetic frustration arises from the presence of competing interactions, which are degenerate in energy. A set of degenerate states constitutes an energy level. For example, the p orbital has three possible angular momentum quantum states that are degenerate (of the same energy) under normal circumstances. 2.3Physics (of matter) at densities so high that gravitational contraction is counteracted, either by the Pauli exclusion principle or by an analogous quantum effect between closely packed neutrons. 〔物理〕衰退的 Example sentencesExamples The collapsed core will become a white dwarf, composed of degenerate matter supported by the inability of two electrons to occupy the same space. Atoms that are compressed into this minimum volume are said to be in a degenerate state. The pressure maintained by a body of degenerate matter is called the degeneracy pressure. The pressure due to the ions can then be treated as an ideal gas, but the pressure due to the degenerate electrons is much larger and hence the gas obeys a different equation of state. 2.4Biology Having reverted to a simpler form as a result of losing a complex or adaptive structure present in the ancestral form. 〔生〕简并的，退化的 degenerate offshoots from the main line of vertebrate progress Example sentencesExamples A partly degenerate consensus sequence was created from the Aspergillus and Penicillium sequences to evaluate the statistical significance of this alignment. This region was found to consist of degenerate heptanucleotide repeats that fold into a hairpin structure allowing base pairing of the repeats. Therefore, under our conditions, we may not detect up to 13.4% degenerate copies of this repetitive DNA motif in the mitochondrial genome. Y chromosomes are genetically degenerate in most organisms studied. The coding sequences of most characterized plant retroelements are highly degenerate and are cluttered with stop codons, frameshifts, and deletions. noun dɪˈdʒɛn(ə)rətdəˈdʒɛn(ə)rət An immoral or corrupt person. 堕落者 get out of my house, you degenerate! Example sentencesExamples But while they helped launch a revolution that has reshaped much of society, cross-dressers still wait for the day when they will no longer be dismissed as freaks and degenerates. On my demanding table, comprising 10 degenerates and one discerning aesthete, virtually everybody was going for mussels followed by venison with roasted root vegetables. I think the most important thing is not to tell the youngsters that they are degenerates if they listen to pop folk, but instil in them the importance of our culture and traditions. These articles portrayed the band as obscene perverts and degenerates. The city has become a magnet for degenerates of all kind. What kind of a psychopathic degenerate would do it? ‘If we do not take action to overcome the obstacles that confront us, only one word can be used to describe those working in the field: degenerates,’ he wrote. Let the nation cleanse itself of its degenerates, its traitors, its thugs. While the hobos, degenerates and backpackers passed by (you need a keen eye to tell the difference), we chatted for a while about this and that. The general consensus of outsiders is that the town is a place of degenerates. In the end, what really happened was a bunch of degenerates who loved being lazy began working so hard that they had to start making plans for so-called careers in the music business. When all you do is have big fun, you usually turn into a degenerate. As an atheist I'm getting sick of the fanaticism of these degenerates. This will remove control of the cannabis industry from criminal degenerates - but it will create serious public health issues that the government had better be ready to deal with. Long aware that he was a Machiavellian degenerate, the University dismissed him and suggested he leave the country. We are smarter than to put you social degenerates in power. This is because they are degenerates, and likely violent. He becomes a total degenerate, as did Faust, and, like Faust, he has sold his soul and is shocked when it comes time for him to die and he is condemned rather than exalted. Synonyms reprobate, debauchee, rake, profligate, libertine, roué, loose-liver pervert, deviant, deviate informal perv rare retrograde, dissolute verb dɪˈdʒɛnəreɪtdəˈdʒɛnəˌreɪt [no object] Decline or deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally. 退化，减退；堕落，变坏 the quality of life had degenerated 生活质量早已下降。 the debate degenerated into a brawl 辩论沦为一场争吵。 Example sentencesExamples Our capital city is slowly degenerating into a gangland. These last few comments are degenerating into a mob attack on a young designer. Sense is inevitably degenerating into nonsense, like a pileup of random mutations in an endangered species gasping its last breaths. The bone system could have degenerated and a similar degeneration in the neck bones can cause unsteadiness and giddiness. Their protest degenerated into an ugly scene where they traded blows with council workers who were supposed to collect the levy. Certainly as this drama deepens, each character bypasses normal human interaction degenerating into deviant behavior. There was a time that I found your comments amusing, however recently you have degenerated into farce and hypocrisy. Once there were beliefs, these degenerated into ideas, then into ideologies. Civility is an essential virtue in a free society, for without it, both free market capitalism and liberal democracy risk degenerating into anarchy or repression. While he continues to place obstacles in the path of negotiations, the situation on the ground is degenerating. They'll have to agree to disagree: I don't want my comments section degenerating into a snarling fist-fight again. His skeletal frame has degenerated to that of a 70 year old. So is it also true that our ability to appreciate and make a perceptive assessment has also degenerated? The second period degenerated to bad tempered aggression with a referee reluctant to impose adequate discipline. Mentally, he probably degenerated to the point where his main concerns are the basic human instincts. As a result, innovation has degenerated into developing new electoral tactics. Now, usually, people with rational views of the world are able to prevent policy from degenerating into such suicidally savage behavior. In the past, anti-corruption drives sometimes degenerated into, or masked, power struggles. Elections have degenerated into a choice between two evils, and your only option is the lesser evil. From there, the interview degenerated, and I wasn't surprised when I wasn't offered the job. Synonyms deteriorate, decline, sink, slip, slide, worsen, get/grow worse, take a turn for the worse, lapse, fail, fall off, slump, go downhill, regress, retrogress decay, rot, go to rack and ruin informal go to pot, go to the dogs, hit the skids, go down the tubes, go down the toilet Australian/New Zealand informal go to the pack rare retrograde, devolve waste away, waste, atrophy, weaken, become debilitated Derivatives degenerately adverb He plasters himself all over the guilty pleasures in which he so degenerately indulges. Example sentencesExamples The degenerately doped metallic GaAs matrix allowed the visualization of the magnetotransport through anomalous Hall effect. Specifically, electron scattering and transport models are developed for the degenerately doped conditions necessary for very-high-frequency diode operation. This exploration of the trash of the 20th century proposes a more underground and degenerately perverse origin and use of the medium. Origin Late 15th century: from Latin degeneratus 'no longer of its kind', from the verb degenerare, from degener 'debased', from de- 'away from' + genus, gener- 'race, kind'. gender from Late Middle English: The words gender and engender (Middle English) go back via Old French to Latin genus ‘birth, family, nation’, a word that was reborrowed in the early 17th century for scientific classification, although it had been in use 50 years earlier in logic. In modern French the ‘d’ was lost to produce genre, a word reborrowed in the early 19th century. Generation (Middle English), generate (early 16th century), engender (Middle English), generosity (Late Middle English), genial (mid 16th century), and degenerate (Late Middle English) are all from the same source. Rhymes regenerate Definition of degenerate in US English: degenerate adjectivedəˈjen(ə)rətdəˈdʒɛn(ə)rət 1Having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline. 衰退的，堕落的 a degenerate form of a higher civilization 高等文明的衰退形式。 Example sentencesExamples For him they were very real and very degenerate. Could you be a more horrible, degenerate monster? Their message about humanity is even more degenerate and degraded than that spouted by the previous administration. What kind of degenerate slimeball would knowingly infect his own people with a known carcinogen? The adult characters are weak, degenerate people, and the junior partners descend into the mire with terrifying speed and realism. The main forms of corruption in the eyes of the locals are bribe-taking, a degenerate life-style and unreasonable fines inflicted on locals. For him, adultery is considered a degenerate act, yet so is divorce. The debtors have owed the creditors £50 million for years but believed, with a Christian trust rare in these degenerate days, that they had been forgiven the debt. The exhibitors tried as much as possible to portray a degenerate image of the conquered peoples of Africa in order to justify their own imperialist adventures. He broke his silence: ‘You know, if word gets around that you saw me here, it'll ruin my reputation as a degenerate junkie.’ Today I spent most of my time programming, or scripting (which is a degenerate form, I suppose,) which is not usually what I do. I am shamed over the disgrace imposed upon us by a degenerate murderer. No society's moral vision has ever, surely, been more degenerate than that. After being injected with a truth serum, Catherine tells the story of her partner's death that features a central character more degenerate than decent. The psychologist also put forward an alternative theory that the killer could be fixated on ‘cleaning up what he sees as degenerate people’. It is not surprising that knowledge of one's own mental state should turn out to be a limiting or degenerate case of knowledge. Nor is it good to offer women to butter-bellied Falstaff, too ugly and degenerate to be desirable. There are theories about the cosmos, theories about degenerate beings, karma and all sorts of other issues. A group of people - some of whom are reading this review - that find themselves on the wet end of a degenerate culture. Although Trotsky considered the Soviet Union as a degenerate worker's state, it was far from it. Synonyms debased, degraded, corrupt, corrupted, vitiated, bastard, impure 2technical Lacking some property, order, or distinctness of structure previously or usually present. 〈技〉退化的，尤指 Synonyms corrupt, decadent, dissolute, dissipated, debauched, rakish, reprobate, profligate, depraved, perverted, despicable, base, vice-ridden, wicked, sinful, ungodly 2.1Mathematics Relating to or denoting an example of a particular type of equation, curve, or other entity that is equivalent to a simpler type, often occurring when a variable or parameter is set to zero. 〔数〕退化的 Example sentencesExamples There was another parallelogram - a smallish and a degenerate one - that is often omitted in reproductions. If the planes pass through the vertex of the cone, the conics are said to be degenerate, otherwise they are not. This point is labelled A 3b, to emphasize that it is a degenerate quadrilateral. At x 5 = 1 we obtain the degenerate symmetric case of a triangle traversed twice. Joining the four points in pairs by lines gives six lines; pairing the six lines in three pairs so that each pair passes through all four points yields the three degenerate conies. 2.2Physics Relating to or denoting an energy level that corresponds to more than one quantum state. 〔物理〕简并的 Example sentencesExamples A set of degenerate states constitutes an energy level. For example, the p orbital has three possible angular momentum quantum states that are degenerate (of the same energy) under normal circumstances. Energetic frustration arises from the presence of competing interactions, which are degenerate in energy. The trick is to take advantage of degenerate states where quantum energy fluctuations are absent. We say that the excited state is degenerate, i.e., there are three sets of quantum numbers which give the same energy. 2.3Physics Relating to or denoting matter at densities so high that gravitational contraction is counteracted either by the Pauli exclusion principle or by an analogous quantum effect between closely packed neutrons. 〔物理〕衰退的 Example sentencesExamples The pressure maintained by a body of degenerate matter is called the degeneracy pressure. The collapsed core will become a white dwarf, composed of degenerate matter supported by the inability of two electrons to occupy the same space. Atoms that are compressed into this minimum volume are said to be in a degenerate state. The pressure due to the ions can then be treated as an ideal gas, but the pressure due to the degenerate electrons is much larger and hence the gas obeys a different equation of state. 2.4Biology Having reverted to a simpler form as a result of losing a complex or adaptive structure present in the ancestral form. 〔生〕简并的，退化的 Example sentencesExamples Y chromosomes are genetically degenerate in most organisms studied. The coding sequences of most characterized plant retroelements are highly degenerate and are cluttered with stop codons, frameshifts, and deletions. This region was found to consist of degenerate heptanucleotide repeats that fold into a hairpin structure allowing base pairing of the repeats. Therefore, under our conditions, we may not detect up to 13.4% degenerate copies of this repetitive DNA motif in the mitochondrial genome. A partly degenerate consensus sequence was created from the Aspergillus and Penicillium sequences to evaluate the statistical significance of this alignment. noundəˈjen(ə)rətdəˈdʒɛn(ə)rət An immoral or corrupt person. 堕落者 Example sentencesExamples These articles portrayed the band as obscene perverts and degenerates. ‘If we do not take action to overcome the obstacles that confront us, only one word can be used to describe those working in the field: degenerates,’ he wrote. Long aware that he was a Machiavellian degenerate, the University dismissed him and suggested he leave the country. In the end, what really happened was a bunch of degenerates who loved being lazy began working so hard that they had to start making plans for so-called careers in the music business. This is because they are degenerates, and likely violent. What kind of a psychopathic degenerate would do it? The general consensus of outsiders is that the town is a place of degenerates. Let the nation cleanse itself of its degenerates, its traitors, its thugs. He becomes a total degenerate, as did Faust, and, like Faust, he has sold his soul and is shocked when it comes time for him to die and he is condemned rather than exalted. On my demanding table, comprising 10 degenerates and one discerning aesthete, virtually everybody was going for mussels followed by venison with roasted root vegetables. As an atheist I'm getting sick of the fanaticism of these degenerates. This will remove control of the cannabis industry from criminal degenerates - but it will create serious public health issues that the government had better be ready to deal with. But while they helped launch a revolution that has reshaped much of society, cross-dressers still wait for the day when they will no longer be dismissed as freaks and degenerates. The city has become a magnet for degenerates of all kind. While the hobos, degenerates and backpackers passed by (you need a keen eye to tell the difference), we chatted for a while about this and that. When all you do is have big fun, you usually turn into a degenerate. I think the most important thing is not to tell the youngsters that they are degenerates if they listen to pop folk, but instil in them the importance of our culture and traditions. We are smarter than to put you social degenerates in power. Synonyms reprobate, debauchee, rake, profligate, libertine, roué, loose-liver verbdəˈdʒɛnəˌreɪtdəˈjenəˌrāt [no object] Decline or deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally. 退化，减退；堕落，变坏 the quality of life had degenerated 生活质量早已下降。 the debate degenerated into a brawl 辩论沦为一场争吵。 Example sentencesExamples Sense is inevitably degenerating into nonsense, like a pileup of random mutations in an endangered species gasping its last breaths. Once there were beliefs, these degenerated into ideas, then into ideologies. Mentally, he probably degenerated to the point where his main concerns are the basic human instincts. So is it also true that our ability to appreciate and make a perceptive assessment has also degenerated? As a result, innovation has degenerated into developing new electoral tactics. From there, the interview degenerated, and I wasn't surprised when I wasn't offered the job. They'll have to agree to disagree: I don't want my comments section degenerating into a snarling fist-fight again. Our capital city is slowly degenerating into a gangland. These last few comments are degenerating into a mob attack on a young designer. Now, usually, people with rational views of the world are able to prevent policy from degenerating into such suicidally savage behavior. The bone system could have degenerated and a similar degeneration in the neck bones can cause unsteadiness and giddiness. Civility is an essential virtue in a free society, for without it, both free market capitalism and liberal democracy risk degenerating into anarchy or repression. There was a time that I found your comments amusing, however recently you have degenerated into farce and hypocrisy. Certainly as this drama deepens, each character bypasses normal human interaction degenerating into deviant behavior. Elections have degenerated into a choice between two evils, and your only option is the lesser evil. The second period degenerated to bad tempered aggression with a referee reluctant to impose adequate discipline. Their protest degenerated into an ugly scene where they traded blows with council workers who were supposed to collect the levy. In the past, anti-corruption drives sometimes degenerated into, or masked, power struggles. While he continues to place obstacles in the path of negotiations, the situation on the ground is degenerating. His skeletal frame has degenerated to that of a 70 year old. Synonyms deteriorate, decline, sink, slip, slide, worsen, get worse, grow worse, take a turn for the worse, lapse, fail, fall off, slump, go downhill, regress, retrogress waste away, waste, atrophy, weaken, become debilitated Origin Late 15th century: from Latin degeneratus ‘no longer of its kind’, from the verb degenerare, from degener ‘debased’, from de- ‘away from’ + genus, gener- ‘race, kind’.
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