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# degenerate

«degenerate» in Mova's school dictionary: **to get worse, falling from a good state into a worse one** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (degenerate, degenerates, degenerated, degenerating); adjective (degenerate)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (verb) To degenerate is to get worse, falling from a good state into a worse one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degenerate/#m1)

2) (adjective) Degenerate means having fallen to a lower or worse state than before. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degenerate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in lessons, a plan or a game degenerates into nonsense; in old tales, a degenerate creature has lost its good qualities

### examples

- The game degenerated into a shouting match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degenerate/#x1)
- Over the years the castle degenerated into ruins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degenerate/#x2)
- The degenerate creature had lost all its old strength. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degenerate/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «degenerate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degenerate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.