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 →

2) (adjective) Degenerate means having fallen to a lower or worse state than before. tree →

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 →
• Over the years the castle degenerated into ruins. tree →
• The degenerate creature had lost all its old strength. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «degenerate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.