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单词 degenerate
释义
degenerate
verb[I]
uk
/dɪˈdʒen.ə.reɪt/us
/dɪˈdʒen.ə.reɪt/
tobecomeworseinquality:
（质量）下降；退化，衰退
Educationalstandardsare degeneratingyearbyyearbecause of alackoffunds.由于缺乏资金，教育水准连年下降。
What wasintendedas apeacefuldemonstrationrapidlydegeneratedintoviolence.一场原本的和平示威迅速演变成了暴力事件。
Synonym
deteriorate
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Deteriorating and making worse
  • add
  • admin
  • aggravate
  • backslide
  • be (all) downhillidiom
  • debase
  • deterioration
  • devaluation
  • devalue
  • disintegrate
  • dog
  • downgrade
  • one step forward, two steps backidiom
  • regress
  • regression
  • regressive
  • relapse
  • retrograde
  • worse
  • worsen
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degenerate
adjective
uk
/dɪˈdʒen.ə.rət/us
/dɪˈdʒen.ə.rət/
havinglowstandardsofbehaviour:
堕落的，颓废的
a degenerateyoungman堕落的年轻人
Synonyms
debauched
dissipatedformaldisapproving
dissoluteliterary
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Morally wrong and evil
  • abhorrent
  • amoral
  • amorality
  • anomie
  • antichrist
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • dissolutely
  • dissoluteness
  • enormity
  • no more Mr Nice Guyidiom
  • non-ethical
  • obscene
  • obscenely
  • obscenity
  • turpitude
  • unconscionable
  • unconscionably
  • unethical
  • unprincipled
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degenerate
noun[C]
formaldisapproving
uk
/dɪˈdʒen.ə.rət/us
/dɪˈdʒen.ə.rət/
someone withlowstandardsofbehaviour:
堕落的人，颓废的人
They're justmoraldegenerates with nosenseofdecency.他们这些人道德败坏，毫无廉耻之心。
Synonym
reprobateformalorhumorous
Compare
pervertnoundisapproving
deviantnoundisapproving
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Morally wrong and evil
  • abhorrent
  • amoral
  • amorality
  • anomie
  • antichrist
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • dissolutely
  • dissoluteness
  • enormity
  • no more Mr Nice Guyidiom
  • non-ethical
  • obscene
  • obscenely
  • obscenity
  • turpitude
  • unconscionable
  • unconscionably
  • unethical
  • unprincipled
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(Definition ofdegeneratefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

degenerate| American Dictionary

degenerate
verb[I]
us
/dɪˈdʒen·əˌreɪt/
tobecomeworse:
Standards ofcourtesyhave degenerated since I was agirl.
degenerate
adjective
us
/dɪˈdʒen·ər·ət/
badorworseinqualityorcharacter, or (of aperson)morallybad:
He was alazy, degenerateyoungman.
(Definition ofdegeneratefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdegenerate

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Neurochemical architecture of the normal and degenerating rat retina.
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In this bifurcation the geometrical splitting of the tangent space is preserved but the expansion in the unstable direction degenerates near a periodic orbit.
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The original world-making power, physis, degenerates into a prototype to be copied and imitated.
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The dialectic protects them from "degenerating" to the level of simple ancillary representations.
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After 48 h following microinjection none of the total of 36 embryos developed to blastocyst stage, they were cleavagearrested and subsequently degenerated.
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Oocytes that had degenerated or those with degenerating signs as indicated by darkening cytoplasm were not included.
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Oocytes with abnormal configurations of condensed chromosomes were classified as degenerating oocytes.
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An electron microscope study of normal and degenerating centrifugal fiber terminals in the pigeon retina.
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Are the non-healthy isolated cells degenerating or undergoing apoptosis?
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However, a few follicles had been invaded by many erythrocytes, and the oocytes in those follicles had degenerated.
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Indeed, "man with two heads" and "scatter for we head" mean ruthlessness and the extent to which things have degenerated.
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Whenever the closure of a certain spectral gap degenerates to a point, this point is called a collapsed spectral gap.
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After feeding for many months, the larva pupates and the active nutritive tissue degenerates.
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Many of them were degenerating, the cell death being unrelated to the fixation technique.
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Mapping photoreceptor and post-receptoral function using a channel permeable probe during development in the normal and degenerating rat retina.
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