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# degenerate

verb (degenerate, degenerates, degenerated, degenerating); adjective (degenerate)

«degenerate» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (verb) To degenerate is to get worse, falling from a good state into a worse one. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degenerate/#m1)
2. (adjective) Degenerate means having fallen to a lower or worse state than before. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degenerate/#m2)

### In the lessons

in lessons, a plan or a game degenerates into nonsense; in old tales, a degenerate creature has lost its good qualities

### Examples

- The game degenerated into a shouting match. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degenerate/#x1)
- Over the years the castle degenerated into ruins. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degenerate/#x2)
- The degenerate creature had lost all its old strength. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degenerate/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

Here it describes a vine that has turned wild and bad, showing how Israel fell away from the good stock God planted.

**Interpretation.** Jeremiah uses the picture of a noble vine gone wrong to show Israel's fall from loyalty to God. Tradition reads it as a call to return.

### Examples

- Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto Me? (Prophets JER.2.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/degenerate/#x1)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «degenerate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/degenerate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«degenerate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/degenerate.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «degenerate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/degenerate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«degenerate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/degenerate.html) on Mova free.