degenerate

1. Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.

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   дегради́ровавшийdegradírovavšij

2. Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt.

   widernatürlich, dekadent, degeneriert

   вы́родившийсяvýrodivšijsja, вы́рожденныйvýroždennyj, опусти́вшийсяopustívšijsja

   ви́родженийvýrodženyj

3. Having lost functionality in general.

4. Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.

   The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codons.

   вы́рожденныйvýroždennyj

5. Qualitatively different, usually simpler, than typical objects of its class.

   A degenerate circle, having radius zero, consists of a single point.

   вы́рожденныйvýroždennyj

6. Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors.

7. Having the same quantum energy level.

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   вы́рожденныйvýroždennyj

1. Don't allow your muscles to degenerate.

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2. Standards of art are slowly degenerate.

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3. The meeting degenerated into a vicious brawl.

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4. Live can so easily degenerate into something sordid and vulgar.

   deDas Leben kann so leicht in etwas Schmutziges und Vulgäres entarten.

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5. There remain great fears of seeing the clashes degenerate into massacres.

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