LekhoriLekhoriHaving deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt. ABR
faint-hearted and degenerate king
Having lost functionality in general.
It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral or corrupt person.
In the cult of degenerates, acts of decency, kindness and modesty could be seen as acts of apostasy.
To lose good or desirable qualities.
His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital.
To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.
Learned borrowing from Latin dēgenerātus. See -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.
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