degeneration
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degeneration (usually uncountable; plural degenerations)
- (uncountable) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
- 1913, B. H. Carrol, An Interpretation of the English Bible,
- The modern cry of "more liberty and less creed" is a degeneration from a vertebrate to a jellyfish.
- 1913, B. H. Carrol, An Interpretation of the English Bible,
- (uncountable) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure.
- fatty degeneration of the liver
- (uncountable) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
- (countable) A thing that has degenerated.
Synonyms[edit]
- (process or state of growing worse): decline, degradation, debasement,degeneracy, deterioration
Translations[edit]
process or state of growing worse
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condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become diminished
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gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants
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