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Noun:

  • A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
  • 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.
  • The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.
  • The thing degenerated.

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