Degenerate | Mean of degenerate in English Dictionary

/dɪˈʤɛnəˌreɪt/

• Verb
• to change to a worse state or condition
1. As the disease progresses, the patient's health will degenerate [=deteriorate] rapidly.
2. Experts fear that the country is degenerating into chaos.
3. The meeting degenerated into a shouting match.
• having low moral standards
1. He criticizes what he believes is a degenerate society.
• Noun
• a person whose behavior is not morally right or socially acceptable
1. a couple of degenerates on a crime spree