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noun

  • 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

  • To lose good or desirable qualities.

    "His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital."

  • To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

adjective

  • (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
  • (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
  • (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
  • Relating to degeneracy
  • Having the same quantum energy level.

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