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Definition of degenerate
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a
:
having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state
•the last degenerate member of a noble family — W. E. Swinton
b
:
having sunk to a condition below that which is normal to a type
•… fruit so degenerate that the insects weren't even interested … — Tamar Perla
; especially
:
having sunk to a lower and usually corrupt and vicious state
•a degenerate schemer
•a despairing and degenerate world had sunk into servitude beneath him — W. L. Sullivan
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