degenerate 的 4 个定义
de·gen·er·at·ed, de·gen·er·at·ing.
- to fall below a normal or desirable level in physical, mental, or moral qualities; deteriorate: The morale of the soldiers degenerated, and they were unable to fight.
- to diminish in quality, especially from a former state of coherence, balance, integrity, etc.: The debate degenerated into an exchange of insults.
- Pathology. to lose functional activity, as a tissue or organ.
- Evolution. to revert to a simple, less highly organized, or less functionally active type, as a parasitic plant that has lost its taproot or the vestigial wings of a flightless bird.
de·gen·er·at·ed, de·gen·er·at·ing.
- to cause degeneration in; bring about a decline, deterioration, or reversion in.
- having fallen below a normal or desirable level, especially in physical or moral qualities; deteriorated; degraded: a degenerate king.
- having lost, or become impaired with respect to, the qualities proper to the species or kind: a degenerate vine.
- characterized by or associated with degeneracy: degenerate times.
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- a person who has declined, as in morals or character, from a type or standard considered normal.
- a person or thing that reverts to an earlier stage of culture, development, or evolution.
- a sexual deviate.
degenerate 近义词
corrupt, deteriorated
decay, deteriorate
更多degenerate例句
- You’d put a mask on the little degenerate to keep him from spewing it all too far.
- It is hifalutin talk for an industry currently dominated by financial sharks and Bitcoin whales who frequently describe themselves as “degenerates.”
- Prove that there is a set of n points in the plane such that the distance between any two points is irrational and each set of three points determines a non-degenerate triangle with rational area.
- Losses can also occur after a chance gene duplication, when the superfluous copy degenerates, since selection no longer preserves it.
- Over the subsequent two quarters, SERP visibility continued to degenerate with a lingering active manual penalty.
- Then, with a grin, “And we all know how degenerate those people are.”
- The popular narrative is that Hitler and his Nazi regime thought all modern art was "degenerate."
- Being a fan of Liquid Sky carries the cachet of degenerate hipness to this day, 32 years after it was filmed.
- Few of us would argue that such thoughts render someone a moral degenerate—or even as grievously ignorant.
- Protests that routinely degenerate into rock-throwing are not, in fact, nonviolent.
- What the armor-bearer was for the warlike races of old, such is the tchbukdi for their degenerate descendants.
- Avoid sarcasm; it will, unconsciously to yourself, degenerate into pertness, and often downright rudeness.
- He observes, also, that these grapes degenerate in the south, but do well in the north in dry and stony soil.
- We infer from his writings that his age was degenerate and corrupt, but, as we have already said, his reproofs were gentle.
- The Curaoa track is hardly passable, but it must be trod to-morrow by the degenerate feet of their successor the Wallaroos.