degenerate (n.)
- alloy
- alter
- apostate
- backslider
- base
- better
- break
- canker
- change
- checker
- chop
- cracking
- debauch
- debauchee
- decadent
- decay
- decline
- defect
- defile
- desert
- deviant
- deviate
- dwindling
- ebbing
- err
- fading
- failing
- fall
- flagging
- flop
- inferior
- jibe
- lapse
- lecher
- low
- miscreant
- misuse
- mutant
- pervert
- pimp
- pining
- poison
- profligate
- prostitute
- rake
- rakehell
- ravage
- recidivist
- recreant
- regress
- relapse
- renegade
- renege
- reprobate
- return
- revolutionary
- rot
- roue
- scapegrace
- shift
- sink
- sinking
- sliding
- slip
- subsiding
- subversive
- swerve
- tack
- taint
- trip
- trollop
- turn
- twist
- vary
- vile
- vitiate
- waning
- warp
- wasting
- wastrel
- whore
- wilting
- withering
- worse
- worsening
degenerate (v.)
- adulterate
- alloy
- alter
- ameliorate
- apostatize
- backslide
- base
- better
- break
- canker
- change
- cheapen
- checker
- chop
- coarsen
- confound
- contaminate
- corrupt
- cracking
- debase
- debauch
- decay
- decline
- defect
- defile
- deflower
- degrade
- denature
- deprave
- descend
- desecrate
- desert
- despoil
- deteriorate
- devalue
- deviate
- disintegrate
- distort
- diverge
- diversify
- err
- fall
- flop
- improve
- infect
- jibe
- lapse
- low
- meliorate
- misuse
- mitigate
- modulate
- mutate
- pervert
- pimp
- poison
- pollute
- prostitute
- rake
- ravage
- ravish
- regress
- relapse
- renegade
- renege
- reprobate
- retrograde
- retrogress
- return
- revert
- revive
- rot
- shift
- sicken
- sink
- slacken
- slip
- swerve
- tack
- taint
- trip
- turn
- twist
- ulcerate
- untune
- vary
- veer
- vile
- violate
- vitiate
- vulgarize
- warp
- weaken
- whore
- worse
- worsen
degenerate (adj.)
- abandoned
- adulterate
- altered
- apostate
- base
- better
- change
- changeable
- changed
- contaminated
- converted
- corrupt
- corrupted
- cracking
- debased
- debauched
- decadent
- decayed
- degraded
- depraved
- deviant
- deviate
- dissolute
- divergent
- draining
- drooping
- dwindling
- effete
- fading
- failing
- falling
- flagging
- flagitious
- ignoble
- improved
- infamous
- inferior
- low
- modified
- mutant
- nefarious
- overripe
- perverted
- polluted
- profligate
- qualified
- rake
- recreant
- reformed
- regressive
- renegade
- renewed
- reprobate
- retrograde
- retrogressive
- revived
- revolutionary
- rotten
- shift
- sliding
- slip
- slipping
- subversive
- tack
- tainted
- traitorous
- transformed
- treasonable
- trip
- turn
- unhealthy
- unmitigated
- vary
- vicious
- vile
- villainous
- violate
- vitiated
- waning
- warped
- withering
- worse
- worsening
Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,—
Such men as live in these degenerate days.
A mass enormous! which in modern days
No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.
