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Adjective: degenerate  di'jenurut
  1. Unrestrained by convention or morality
    - debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast
Noun: degenerate  di'jenurut
  1. A person whose behaviour deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behaviour
    - pervert, deviant, deviate
Verb: degenerate  di'jenu`reyt
  1. Grow worse
    "Conditions in the slums degenerated"
    - devolve, deteriorate, drop

Derived forms: degenerated, degenerates, degenerating

See also: degeneration, degenerative, immoral

Type of: decline, miscreant, reprobate, worsen

Encyclopedia: Degenerate

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