vi.

1. 衰退；墮落；變壞[（+into）]
   Young people of today are not degenerating.

   今天的青年並沒有在變壞。

2. 【生】退化

a.

1. 衰退的；墮落的
   He didn't let riches and luxury make him degenerate.

   他不因財富和奢華而自甘墮落。

2. 【生】退化的

n.

1. 墮落者；變態性慾者[C]

adj.

1. having lost the physical or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline.
   ▸Biology  having reverted to a simpler form as a result of losing a structure present in the ancestral form.
2. Physics  relating to or denoting a quantized energy level corresponding to more than one state.
   ▸denoting matter at such high density (e.g. in neutron stars) that quantum effects are dominant.

n.

v.