degeneration 音标拼音: [dɪdʒ
, ɛnɚ'eʃən]
n . 退化,恶化,堕落
退化,恶化,堕落
degeneration n 1 :
the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality [
synonym :
{
degeneration }, {
devolution }] [
ant : {
development },
{
evolution }]
2 :
the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities [
synonym : {
degeneracy }, {
degeneration }, {
decadence }, {
decadency }]
3 :
passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form [
synonym : {
degeneration }, {
retrogression }]
Degeneration \
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1 .
The act or state of growing worse ,
or the state of having become worse ;
decline ;
degradation ;
debasement ;
degeneracy ;
deterioration .
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Our degeneration and apostasy . --
Bates .
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2 . (
Physiol .)
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 .
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3 . (
Biol .)
A gradual deterioration ,
from natural causes ,
of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs ;
hereditary degradation of type .
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4 .
The thing degenerated . [
R .]
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Cockle ,
aracus , . . .
and other degenerations . --
Sir T .
Browne .
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{
Amyloid degeneration }, {
Caseous degeneration },
etc .
See under {
Amyloid }, {
Caseous },
etc .
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131 Moby Thesaurus words for "
degeneration ":
abandon ,
abandonment ,
abjection ,
about -
face ,
accommodation ,
adaptation ,
adjustment ,
alteration ,
amelioration ,
apostasy ,
atrophy ,
betterment ,
break ,
change ,
change of heart ,
changeableness ,
closed loop ,
closed sequence ,
comedown ,
constructive change ,
continuity ,
conversion ,
corruptedness ,
corruption ,
corruptness ,
current -
control circuit ,
debasement ,
decadence ,
decadency ,
declension ,
declination ,
decline ,
defection ,
deformation ,
degeneracy ,
degenerateness ,
degenerative change ,
degradation ,
demoralization ,
demotion ,
depravation ,
depravedness ,
depravity ,
depreciation ,
derogation ,
descent ,
deterioration ,
deviation ,
devolution ,
difference ,
discontinuity ,
dissoluteness ,
divergence ,
diversification ,
diversion ,
diversity ,
downfall ,
downgrade ,
downtrend ,
downturn ,
downward mobility ,
downward trend ,
drop ,
dying ,
ebb ,
effeteness ,
fading ,
failing ,
failure ,
failure of nerve ,
fall ,
falling -
off ,
feedback ,
fitting ,
flip -
flop ,
flip -
flop circuit ,
gradual change ,
improvement ,
involution ,
lapse ,
loss of tone ,
melioration ,
mitigation ,
modification ,
modulation ,
moral pollution ,
moral turpitude ,
overthrow ,
perversion ,
positive feedback ,
process loop ,
profligacy ,
qualification ,
quality loop ,
radical change ,
re -
creation ,
realignment ,
redesign ,
reform ,
reformation ,
regression ,
remaking ,
renewal ,
reprobacy ,
reshaping ,
restructuring ,
retrocession ,
retrogradation ,
retrogression ,
reversal ,
reversed feedback ,
revival ,
revivification ,
revolution ,
rottenness ,
shift ,
slippage ,
slump ,
sudden change ,
switch ,
total change ,
transition ,
turn ,
turnabout ,
turpitude ,
upheaval ,
variation ,
variety ,
violent change ,
wane ,
worsening
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