Usually means: Deteriorated in quality or function.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. degenerated: Merriam-Webster
  2. degenerated: Collins English Dictionary
  3. degenerated: Vocabulary.com
  4. degenerated: Wordnik
  5. degenerated: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. degenerated: Wiktionary
  7. Degenerated, degenerated: Dictionary.com
  8. degenerated: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Degenerated: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Degenerated: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. degenerated: FreeDictionary.org
  12. degenerated: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. degenerated: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. degenerated: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. degenerated: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. degenerated: Medical dictionary

(Note: See degenerate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (degenerate)

adjective:  (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
adjective:  (of a person or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt.
adjective:  Having lost functionality in general.
adjective:  (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
adjective:  (mathematics) Qualitatively different, usually simpler, than typical objects of its class.
adjective:  (mathematics, of an eigenvalue) Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors.
adjective:  (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.
noun:  One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral or corrupt person.
verb:  (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.
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