I. verb
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Attempts by the UK government to prop up the pound on the exchange markets degenerated into chaos.
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Don't allow your comments to degenerate into a personal attack on the employee.
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There's no denying that our relationship has degenerated over the years.
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What should have been a civilised debate degenerated into an unseemly row between the two sides.
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It degenerated into a three-sided football match, with blue, yellow and red-lit supporters all but waving rattles in support of their teams.
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Nevertheless, a foot sweep does require a lot of power to prevent it from degenerating into no more than a shin attack.
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Paralyzed muscles lost tone and became flaccid; with severe damage they further degenerated through shrinkage and atrophy.
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Some concert promoters have refused to book rap acts after some rap concerts degenerated into violence.
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The regional question has degenerated into adhoc regional study - on-going analysis of the demand-supply equation for land release.
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This soon degenerated into disorder for which there was no remedy.
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To leave a habitat to degenerate and perhaps be destroyed is to injure all its animals, including of course the species concerned.
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Unfortunately, when Graham left office Governor Martinez ignored the system, and it quickly degenerated into make-work.
II. adjective
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a morally degenerate society
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Expressionism was at one time considered a degenerate form of art.
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He was labelled a degenerate youth by his teachers, and left the town before he was 16.
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A degenerate culture of the gun is seen to embrace all the lost young men in the bush, whatever their allegiances.
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Both sets of inquiries pointed to the existence of a degenerate underclass of the population which formed a residual pool of infection.
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Flames belch from the wreckage, degenerate human beings scrabble for survival, the screen is dark and the aspect brooding.
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Neurones in the myenteric plexus were not identified in the colon and were sparse and appeared degenerate in the appendix and ileum.
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The distant fading signals a run-down age of degenerate belief.
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The ravaging giant of Eirena's territory finds counterparts in other figures depicted as monstrous, cruel, degenerate , and corrupt.
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These particular degenerate cases will be analysed in more detail in the next section.
III. noun
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He regarded gay men as perverted degenerates who were no use to society and should be put to death.
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Or they might shelter piratical degenerates who had become creatures of Chaos.
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She is not an incompetent but a degenerate .
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Why are we idiots and moral degenerates, while they are in vogue?