English > degenerate: 3 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior. |
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| Synonyms | pervert, deviant, deviate |
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| Narrower | fetishist | One who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature) |
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| masochist | someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment |
| nymphomaniac, nympho | A woman with abnormal sexual desires |
| pederast, paederast, child molester | A man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner |
| pedophile, paedophile | An adult who is sexually attracted to children |
| sadist | someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain or others |
| sadomasochist | someone who enjoys / enjoys / enjoys both sadism and masochism |
| satyr, lecher, lech, letch | man with strong sexual desires |
| sodomite, sodomist, sod, bugger | someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) |
| Broader | reprobate, miscreant | A person without moral scruples |
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| Spanish | degenerado, depravado, pervertido |
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| Catalan | degenerat, depravat, pervertit |
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| Adjectives | degenerate | unrestrained by convention or morality |
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English > degenerate: 3 senses > verb 1, body| Meaning | Grow worse. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
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| Example | "Conditions in the slums degenerated" |
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| Synonyms | devolve, deteriorate, drop |
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| Narrower | languish, fade | Become feeble |
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| tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade | Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody |
| waste, rot | Become physically weaker |
| Broader | worsen, decline | Grow worse |
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| Opposite | recuperate, recover, convalesce | get over an illness or shock |
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| Spanish | degenerarse, degenerar, deteriorarse, deteriorar |
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| Catalan | degenerar-se, degenerar, deteriorar-se, deteriorar, espatllar-se, espatllar |
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| Adjectives | degenerative | (of illness) marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function |
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| Nouns | degeneration | the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality |
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| degeneration | the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities |
