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degenerate 音標拼音: [dɪdʒ'ɛnɚət] [dɪdʒ'ɛnɚ ,et] a. 墮落的
vi. 退化,墮落
vt. 使變質,使退化 墮落的退化,墮落使變質,使退化 degenerate adj 1: unrestrained by convention or morality; " Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; " deplorably dissipated and degraded"; " riotous living"; " fast women" [ synonym: { debauched}, { degenerate}, { degraded}, { dissipated}, { dissolute}, { libertine}, { profligate}, { riotous}, { fast}] n 1: a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior [ synonym: { pervert}, { deviant}, { deviate}, { degenerate}] v 1: grow worse; " Her condition deteriorated"; " Conditions in the slums degenerated"; " The discussion devolved into a shouting match" [ synonym: { devolve}, { deteriorate}, { drop}, { degenerate}] [ ant: { convalesce}, { recover}, { recuperate}] Degenerate \ De* gen" er* ate\, a. [ L. degeneratus, p. p. of degenerare to degenerate, cause to degenerate, fr. degener base, degenerate, that departs from its race or kind; de- genus race, kind. See { Kin} relationship.] Having become worse than one' s kind, or one' s former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low. [ 1913 Webster] Faint- hearted and degenerate king. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] A degenerate and degraded state. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Degenerate from their ancient blood. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster] These degenerate days. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] I had planted thee a noble vine . . . : how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? -- Jer. ii. 21. [ 1913 Webster]
Degenerate \ De* gen" er* ate\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Degenerated}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Degenerating}.] 1. To be or grow worse than one' s kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate. [ 1913 Webster] When wit transgresseth decency, it degenerates into insolence and impiety. -- Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Biol.) To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type. [ 1913 Webster]
degenerate \ de* gen" er* ate\, n. 1. a person who has declined from a high standard, especially a sexual deviate; -- usually used disparagingly or opprobriously of persons whose sexual behavior does not conform to the norms of accepted morals. [ PJC] 2. a person or thing that has fallen from a higher to a lower state, or reverted to an earlier type or stage of development or culture. -- RHUD [ PJC] 234 Moby Thesaurus words for " degenerate": abandoned, adulterate, alloy, alter, altered, ameliorate, apostate, apostatize, backslide, backslider, bad egg, bad lot, base, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, better, black sheep, bottom out, break, canker, change, changeable, changed, cheapen, checker, chop, chop and change, coarsen, come about, come apart, come around, come down, come round, coming apart, confound, contaminate, contaminated, converted, corrupt, corrupted, cracking, crumbling, debase, debased, debauch, debauched, debauchee, decadent, decay, decayed, decline, declining, defect, defile, deflower, degrade, degraded, denature, deprave, depraved, descend, desecrate, desert, despoil, deteriorate, deteriorating, devalue, deviant, deviate, disimprove, disintegrate, disintegrating, dissolute, dissolve into chaos, distort, diverge, divergent, diversify, draining, drooping, dwindling, ebbing, effete, err, fading, failing, fall, fall back, fallen angel, falling, flagging, flagitious, flop, fragmenting, get worse, go astray, go downhill, go to pot, go wrong, going to pieces, grow worse, haul around, have a comedown, hit rock bottom, ignoble, improve, improved, infamous, infect, inferior, jibe, languishing, lapse, lecher, let down, lost sheep, lost soul, low, marcescent, meliorate, metamorphosed, metastasized, miscreant, misuse, mitigate, modified, modulate, morally polluted, mutant, mutate, nefarious, overripe, pervert, perverted, pimp, pining, poison, pollute, polluted, profligate, prostitute, qualified, rake, rakehell, ravage, ravish, reach the depths, rebuilt, recidivist, recreant, reformed, regress, regressive, relapse, renegade, renege, renewed, reprobate, retrograde, retrogress, retrogressive, return, revert, revive, revived, revolutionary, rot, rotten, roue, scapegrace, shift, shriveling, sicken, sink, sinking, slacken, sliding, slip, slip back, slipping, slumping, sorry lot, steeped in iniquity, subsiding, subversive, swerve, tabetic, tack, taint, tainted, take a turn, touch bottom, traitorous, transformed, translated, transmuted, treasonable, trip, trollop, turn, turn against, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn traitor, twist, ulcerate, undergo a change, unhealthy, unmitigated, untune, vary, veer, vice- corrupted, vicious, vile, villainous, violate, vitiate, vitiated, vulgarize, waning, warp, warped, wasting, wastrel, weaken, whore, wilting, withering, worse, worsen, worsening
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