Degenerate

[dɪ'dʒen(ə)rət] or [dɪ'dʒɛnəret]

解釋/意思:

(a.) Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low.

(v. i.) To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate.

(v. i.) To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.

埃尔罗伊校對

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. Deteriorate, decline, decay, become worse, grow worse.

a. Inferior, mean, base, corrupt, fallen, degenerated.

科琳錄入

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:deteriorate, grow_worse, retrograde

ANT:Recover, improve, {[Jiend]?}, advance

杰罗姆錄入

解釋/意思:

adj. having departed from the high qualities of race or kind: become base—also Degen′erous (obs.).—v.i. to fall from a nobler state: to be or to grow worse.—v.i. Degen′der (Spens.) to degenerate.—ns. Degen′eracy Degenerā′tion the act or process of becoming degenerate: the state of being degenerate.—adv. Degen′erately.—n. Degen′erateness.—adj. Degen′erating.—n. Degenerā′tionist one who believes that the tendency of man is not to improve but to degenerate.—adj. Degen′erative tending or causing to degenerate.

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