Word
Degeneration
How many syllables?
5 Syllables
How it's divided?
de-gen-er-a-tion
Definition
- n. - The act or state of growing worse, or the state of
having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy;
deterioration.
- 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.
- n. - A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any
class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs;
hereditary degradation of type.
- n. - The thing degenerated.
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