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TWL06 (NASPA List 2006)
"Degenerate" Definition
noun
A depraved, corrupt, or vicious person.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
A person lacking or having progressively lost normative biological or psychological characteristics.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
one that is degenerate as.
Source: Merriam-Webster
One degraded from the normal moral standard.
Source: Merriam-Webster
A sexual pervert.
Source: Merriam-Webster
adjective
Biology Having lost one or more highly developed functions, characteristics, or structures through evolution: a degenerate life form.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Genetics Having more than one codon that may code for the same amino acid.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Having declined, as in function or nature, from a former or original state: a degenerate form of an ancient folk art.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Having fallen to an inferior or undesirable state, especially in mental or moral qualities.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Medicine Characterized by degeneration, as of tissue, a cell, or an organ.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
verb-intransitive
To decline in quality: The quality of his writing degenerated as he continued to drink.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To fall below a normal or desirable state, especially functionally or morally; deteriorate: old water pipes that are degenerating with age; a dispute that degenerated into a brawl.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To undergo degeneration.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
verb
To pass from a higher to a lower type or condition .
Source: Merriam-Webster
To sink into a low intellectual or moral state.
Source: Merriam-Webster
To decline in quality .
Source: Merriam-Webster
To decline from a condition or from the standards of a species, race, or breed.
Source: Merriam-Webster
To evolve or develop into a less autonomous or less functionally active form .
Source: Merriam-Webster
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