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Word Meanings - DEGENERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low. Faint-hearted and degenerate king. Shak. A degenerate and degraded state. Milton. Degenerate

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Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low. Faint-hearted and degenerate king. Shak. A degenerate and degraded state. Milton. Degenerate from their ancient blood. Swift. These degenerate days. Pope. I had planted thee a noble vine . . . : how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me Jer. ii. 21. (more info) degenerate, cause to degenerate, fr. degener base, degenerate, that departs from its race or kind; de- + genus race, kind. See Kin

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    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • FAINT
    feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
  • HEARTWOOD
    The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • HEART
    A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle
  • DECLINATION
    The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • HEARTBROKEN
    Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
  • FORMERLY
    In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • HEARTGRIEF
    Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
  • HEARTEN
    1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.
  • DECLINATOR
    1. An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane. 2. A dissentient. Bp. Hacket.
  • HEARTDEEP
    Rooted in the heart. Herbert.
  • STATE SOCIALISM
    A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
  • FAINTLY
    In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • BECOME
    happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
  • HEARTENER
    One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. W. Browne.
  • HOLLOW-HEARTED
    Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE
  • WHITE-HEART
    A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
  • SWEETHEART
    A lover of mistress.
  • PRAISEWORTHINESS
    The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
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    A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
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    Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
  • GREAT-HEARTED
    1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.

 

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