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▸ adjective:  (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
▸ adjective:  (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
▸ 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.
▸ adjective:  (of a gambler) Addictive or compulsive.
▸ 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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