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Degender :: Degender (v. i.) Alt. of Degene.

Degener :: Degener (v. i.) To degenerate.

Degeneracy :: Degeneracy (a.) The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.

Degeneracy :: Degeneracy (a.) The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness.

Degenerate :: Degenerate (a.) Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low..

Degenerate :: Degenerate (v. i.) To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate..

Degenerate :: Degenerate (v. i.) To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.

Degenerated :: Degenerated (imp. & p. p.) of Degenerat.

Degenerately :: Degenerately (adv.) In a degenerate manner; unworthily.

Degenerateness :: Degenerateness (n.) Degeneracy.

Degenerating :: Degenerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Degenerat.

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration..

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver..

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type..

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) The thing degenerated.

Degenerationist :: Degenerationist (n.) A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state..

Degenerative :: Degenerative (a.) Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.

Degenerous :: Degenerous (a.) Degenerate; base.

Degenerously :: Degenerously (adv.) Basely.

Wallerian Degeneration :: Wallerian degeneration () A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850..

Wodegeld :: Wodegeld (n.) A geld, or payment, for wood..

Yezdegerdian :: Yezdegerdian (a.) Of or pertaining to Yezdegerd, the last Sassanian monarch of Persia, who was overthrown by the Mohammedans; as, the Yezdegerdian era, which began on the 16th of June, a. d. 632. The era is still used by the Parsees..