5syllables
degeneration
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Definitions ofdegeneration
1noun
- The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
- 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.
Example: "fatty degeneration of the liver"
- Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
- A thing that has degenerated.
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