Degenerated is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEGENERATED in dictionary:

VERB:
• DEGENERATE, to pass from a higher to a lower type or condition
• decline or deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally
NOUN:
• an immoral or corrupt person
ADJECTIVE:
• (of a type of equation, curve, etc.) equivalent to a simpler type, especially when a variable or parameter is set to zero.
• (of an energy level) corresponding to more than one quantum state.
• (of matter) at densities so high that gravitational contraction is counteracted, either by the Pauli exclusion principle or by an analogous quantum effect between closely packed neutrons.
• having reverted to a simpler form as a result of losing a complex or adaptive structure present in the ancestral form
• having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline
• lacking some usual or expected property or quality.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state; having sunk to a condition below that which is normal to a type; having sunk to a lower and usually corrupt and vicious state; degraded

Words related to DEGENERATED

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How to use DEGENERATED in a sentence

• The energy of the northern Greek character was still unbroken there, although it had degenerated into a reckless impatience of discipline and control.
• This threat drove Mozart to desperation, and the marriage degenerated into a race between the priest and the policeman.
• It would however be possible to hold, on the evidence, that it degenerated into a mere parochial church.
• She found her former ability to have degenerated to the production of a hollow rush of wind through the lips, and no clear note at all.
• They caused scandal when they degenerated into vice, and rarely failed in that case to obscure the good fame of persons subject to them.
• The stranger, who was in the classical days the messenger of the gods and received welcome as such, has degenerated to the position of the modern tramp.
• Pliny, and others, abound in grand examples, that prove we have degenerated at any rate in this respect, for these convivials were neither sick nor sorry.
• Tragedy degenerated, in Greece, from the time of Aristotle, and, in Rome, after Augustus.
• And when they degenerated into self-conceit on the ground of their having been so highly privileged, they were finally cast out of the land of promise.
• His language had also degenerated as well as his looks.
• Now he saw that it had degenerated into a restlessness that appeared to result from a continued waste of nervous energy.
• There he has suffered his race to decay, and, along with himself, his works have degenerated.
• The road coming out from Liscannor was a real road as far as the burying ground, but from thence onward it had degenerated.
• If that were possible, humanity would have degenerated to utter brutality long ago.
• He was killed by his son and Sinhalese history degenerated into a complicated story of crime and discord, in which the weaker faction generally sought the aid of the Tamils.
• The Catholic faith had degenerated into dogma and controversy.
• Being all of them degenerated dialects of the Latin, they are apt to mix in conversation.
• It would seem, too, as if the physical constitution degenerated with the mental.
• The Earl of Valletort has degenerated into little better than a company-promoter, and he had made his own compact with Vassilan.
• Mysteries in the lapse of time degenerated and the symbols were misunderstood, 382-l.
• Marneffe meanwhile showed a blind confidence in his chief, which degenerated into ridiculous complaisance.
• He degenerated frightfully during the last twenty years of his life.
• Thwarted in his attacks on the oligarchy, he degenerated into violent courses, and ultimately organized, or rather was provoked into organizing, the rebellion of 1837.
• Papineau, dashing himself in vain for twenty years against the entrenched camp of the ascendancy, finally degenerated, like Mackenzie, into a commonplace rebel.
• Nowhere else in the world has the liberty of the Press so degenerated into license.
• Even the hope of immortality has degenerated into a belief in apparitions and voices from the dead.

Similar words containing GENERAT without suffix ed and without prefix de

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