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degenerating
Overview of verb degenerate
The verb degenerate has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate -- (grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match")
Antonyms of verb degenerate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb degenerate
1 sense of degenerate
Sense 1
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
=> worsen, decline
=> change state, turn
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb degenerate
1 sense of degenerate
Sense 1
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
=> tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade
=> languish, fade
=> waste, rot
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb degenerate
1 sense of degenerate
Sense 1
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
=> worsen, decline
'Cause To' of verb degenerate
Derived Forms of verb degenerate
1 sense of degenerate
Sense 1
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
RELATED TO>(adj) degenerative#1
=> degenerative
RELATED TO>(noun) degeneration#2
=> degeneracy, degeneration, decadence, decadency
RELATED TO>(noun) degeneration#1
=> degeneration, devolution
Domain of verb degenerate
Domain Terms of verb degenerate
Familiarity of verb degenerate
degenerate used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb degenerate
1 sense of degenerate
Sense 1
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
*> Something ----s
*> Somebody ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb degenerate
1 sense of degenerate
Sense 1
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
> worsen, decline
=> inflame
=> sicken, come down
=> devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
=> deprive, impoverish
=> fail
=> tumble
=> slip, drop off, drop away, fall away
=> suffer
=> suffer, lose
=> regress, retrograde, retrogress
=> turn down
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb degenerate
Sense 1
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
=> worsen, decline
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Grep of verb degenerate
degenerate
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