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degenerate English

Meaning degenerate meaning

What does degenerate mean?
Definitions in simple English

degenerate Noun

— a person who loses all moral values He became a degenerate after becoming a junkie and losing his moral values. Those drug addicts and degenerates on the street corner should not be allowed near children.

degenerate Verb

— Degenerate is to break down, to crumble, erode. She was a junkie and her health degenerated day by day.

degenerate

— adjective (= debauched, degraded, dissipated, riotous, fast) unrestrained by convention or morality Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society deplorably dissipated and degraded riotous living fast women — verb (= devolve, deteriorate) grow worse Her condition deteriorated Conditions in the slums degenerated The discussion devolved into a shouting match — noun (= deviate) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

Synonyms degenerate synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as degenerate?

degenerate English » English

deteriorate corrupt depraved immoral debauched worsen profligate libertine dissolute deviant deteriorated riotous deviate degraded degrade decline spoil rot regress pervert monster metamorphosis go bad get worse fast dwindle drop dissipated devolve degradation degeneracy decay crash worse wither wicked weirdo weaken variant unprincipled transmutation transformation submerge spoiled sluttish self-indulgent run wild run down ruined rotten

Topics degenerate topics

What do people use degenerate to talk about?
Social behavior Behavior Good, moral

Bad, immoral
States Quality Good Better

Worse

Conjugation degenerate conjugation

How do you conjugate degenerate?

degenerate · verb

Examples degenerate examples

How do I use degenerate in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Live can so easily degenerate into something sordid and vulgar.

Movie subtitles

All of these degenerate characteristics check amazingly with the history of the dead man before us, whose life was one of brutality, of violence and murder.
There will be no more mixing with the degenerate natives of these islands.
I don't want a degenerate child.
They're degenerate, immoral idiots.
You wouldn't want to give birth to degenerate children?
Life can so easily degenerate into something sordid and vulgar.
We accept your degenerate behavior.
In this degenerate age, one must kill so as not to be killed.
Moron! Degenerate!
I apologize for not telling you sooner. that you're a degenerate, sadistic old man.
What kind of degenerate comes in for something so minor?
You vile, disgusting degenerate.
Your brother makes others do all the work, your degenerate brother!
Shocking degenerate.
I am degenerate.
I apologise for not telling you sooner that you are a degenerate, sadistic old man.
Totally degenerate face.
I don't want Gilles to give his name to a member of a degenerate class.
The Wermacht A gang of degenerate Nazis.
You're a degenerate.
A very sick. He's a degenerate maniac!
Degenerate atheistic Commie. - What did you say?
You've used the most degenerate means to gain your ends.
Only when they became degenerate, sir- the virile fathers of the Republic.
I apologize for not telling you sooner that you're a degenerate, sadistic old man.
Degenerate!
Anything at all, but don't leave me here with this. Degenerate. Ha ha.
Degenerate.
He's a drunkard, a degenerate, completely crazy.
Degenerate atheistic Commie.
I said Premier Kissoff is a degenerate atheistic Commie!
His Majesty did not permit the public's presence at this trial so that it could degenerate into a circus.
The king was a degenerate, his children were sickly, and he was surrounded by idiots, dwarves and invalids.

News and current affairs

France needs a debate on European Union affairs, but only as long as it does not degenerate - as is common in Europe - into self-flagellation.
There is a danger that scientific establishments may degenerate into fiefdoms controlled by scientific mandarins who dominate major state-funded university departments and laboratories.
Moreover, no single state can weigh in on international negotiations and offer solutions to economic rivalries or trade issues that threaten to degenerate into political clashes.
But as mandatory sentencing rules have landed more and more Americans behind bars, incidents that bear a disquieting resemblance to the degenerate cruelties photographed in Iraq have come increasingly to light.
We in the West may badly need Russia's energy, but if Russia does not want its future to degenerate into Oriental despotism, it must engage with the West in good faith.
He repeatedly spoke of building a robust civil society, arguing that political parties will degenerate into sects if they are closed to influence from below.
If taken to extremes, Russian society's response to its wrenching modernization could degenerate into a nationalist revolution led by xenophobes.
The state's gradual decomposition - its degenerate ethos of rent-seeking and appropriation of public goods - finally pushed Russia's citizens, especially its young post-communist middle class, into the streets.
These, however, were never allowed to degenerate into the outright communal slaughter that the war in Sri Lanka has often produced.
Withdrawal is one of the riskiest military maneuvers, because it can easily degenerate into panicky retreat and chaos.
But Hamas's brinkmanship is a dangerous exercise, for a low-intensity conflict can easily degenerate into an all-out flare-up if its rockets cause a politically unbearable number of casualties on the Israeli side.
Though the Thai-Cambodian border battles have involved tanks and heavy artillery, they are unlikely to degenerate into open, large-scale warfare.
Will Abbas be able to keep the Palestinians on a diplomatic path, or will the situation degenerate again into violence and another disaster?

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