degenerate
verb [intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they degenerate | |
| he / she / it degenerates | |
| past simple degenerated | |
| past participle degenerated | |
| -ing form degenerating |
to become worse, for example by becoming lower in quality or weaker 恶化；蜕变；衰退 Her health degenerated quickly. 她的健康状况迅速恶化。 - degenerate into something
The march degenerated into a riot. 示威游行变成了暴乱。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- quickly
- rapidly
- easily
- …
- into
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Latin degeneratus ‘no longer of its kind’, from the verb degenerare, from degener ‘debased’, from de- ‘away from’ + genus, gener- ‘race, kind’.