English
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Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪ��n|-eɪ��n
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#The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.
#*1913, B. H. Carrol, An Interpretation of the English Bible,
#*:The modern cry of "more liberty and less creed" is a degeneration from a vertebrate to a jellyfish.
#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.
#A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
#The thing degenerated.
Translations
trans-top|the act or state of growing worse
Hungarian: t|hu|elkorcsosulás, t|hu|degeneráltság
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trans-top|that condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become diminished
Hungarian: t|hu|elfajulás
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trans-top|a gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants
Hungarian: t|hu|hanyatlás
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trans-top|the thing degenerated
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ttbc|Finnish: degeneraatio (1), taantuminen (1,3), rappeutuminen (1,3)
ttbc|Hebrew: ×�×ª× ×�×�× ×�ת (hitnavnut) f (1,2,3)
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ar:degeneration
id:degeneration
pl:degeneration
ru:degeneration
vi:degeneration
tr:degeneration
zh:degeneration
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