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degeneration 音标拼音: [dɪdʒ ,ɛnɚ'eʃən] n. 退化,恶化,堕落 退化,恶化,堕落 degeneration n 1: the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality [ synonym: { degeneration}, { devolution}] [ ant: { development}, { evolution}] 2: the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities [ synonym: { degeneracy}, { degeneration}, { decadence}, { decadency}] 3: passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form [ synonym: { degeneration}, { retrogression}] Degeneration \ De* gen` er* a" tion\, n. [ Cf. F. d[' e] g[' e] n[' e] ration.] 1. The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. [ 1913 Webster] Our degeneration and apostasy. -- Bates. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Physiol.) 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; as, fatty degeneration of the liver. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Biol.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type. [ 1913 Webster] 4. The thing degenerated. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] Cockle, aracus, . . . and other degenerations. -- Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster] { Amyloid degeneration}, { Caseous degeneration}, etc. See under { Amyloid}, { Caseous}, etc. [ 1913 Webster] 131 Moby Thesaurus words for " degeneration": abandon, abandonment, abjection, about- face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, alteration, amelioration, apostasy, atrophy, betterment, break, change, change of heart, changeableness, closed loop, closed sequence, comedown, constructive change, continuity, conversion, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, current- control circuit, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, defection, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degenerative change, degradation, demoralization, demotion, depravation, depravedness, depravity, depreciation, derogation, descent, deterioration, deviation, devolution, difference, discontinuity, dissoluteness, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, downfall, downgrade, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dying, ebb, effeteness, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling- off, feedback, fitting, flip- flop, flip- flop circuit, gradual change, improvement, involution, lapse, loss of tone, melioration, mitigation, modification, modulation, moral pollution, moral turpitude, overthrow, perversion, positive feedback, process loop, profligacy, qualification, quality loop, radical change, re- creation, realignment, redesign, reform, reformation, regression, remaking, renewal, reprobacy, reshaping, restructuring, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, reversal, reversed feedback, revival, revivification, revolution, rottenness, shift, slippage, slump, sudden change, switch, total change, transition, turn, turnabout, turpitude, upheaval, variation, variety, violent change, wane, worsening
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