If you say that someone or something degenerates, you mean that they become worse in some way, for example weaker, lower in quality, or more dangerous. Inactivity can make your joints stiff, and the bones may begin to degenerate a very serious humanitarian crisis which could degenerate into a catastrophe. = deteriorate + degeneration de·gen·era·tion various forms of physical and mental degeneration
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
a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type
grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
{i} mental retard; sexual pervert, one who has does not follow the accepted moral standards
Describes an equilibrium assemblage whose variance is lower than expected from the number of phases and components because some other restriction is active in the phase rule Examples include coincidences, singular points, collinear phases, and equilibria in which some or all phases are restricted to a bounding subsystem