degeneration
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /dɪˌdʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/
degeneration (uncountable)
- (uncountable) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
- (uncountable) 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.
- fatty degeneration of the liver
- (uncountable) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
- (countable) A thing that has degenerated.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
- cockle, aracus, […] and other degenerations
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
- (process or state of growing worse) decline, degradation, debasement, degeneracy, deterioration
- (gaming slang) nerf
- German: Entartung
- Italian: degenerazione
- Portuguese: degeneração
- Russian: вырожде́ние
- Spanish: degeneración
- French: dégénérescence, dégénération
- German: Degeneration
- Italian: degenerazione
- Portuguese: degeneração
- Russian: дегенера́ция
- Spanish: degeneración
- French: dégénérescence, dégénération
- Portuguese: degeneração
- Russian: вырожде́ние
- Spanish: degeneración
- Spanish: degeneración
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