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What does degenerate mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
  2. (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
  3. (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
  4. (mathematics) A degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class.
  5. (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.
Noun
  1. One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.
  2. (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.
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