Crossword-Solution: DEGENERATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Degeneration | n. | The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. |
| Degeneration | n. | 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; as, fatty degeneration of the liver. |
| Degeneration | n. | A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type. |
| Degeneration | n. | The thing degenerated. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with DEGENERATION (5)
The too-perfect security of the Overworlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, to a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.
From this point of view, the necessity for defending the glories of white civilization against the corruption of racial degeneration justified more and more radical action.
Amyloid degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition of various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an albuminous substance, giving a blue color with iodine and sulphuric acid; Ð called also waxy or lardaceous degeneration.
Drinking is one form of the many forms of degeneration that set in when white men are exposed too long to too much white light.
The first light of the morning shone full upon the portrait, and, as I lay awake, my eyes continued to dwell upon it with growing complacency; its beauty crept about my heart insidiously, silencing my scruples one after another; and while I knew that to love such a woman were to sign and seal one’s own sentence of degeneration, I still knew that, if she were alive, I should love her.
Quotes with DEGENERATION (3)
People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.
A connection could be drawn between the secular ascent of biblical values in today's world and the depreciation of beauty that characterizes it on so many levels. Beauty today is often depreciated as monotonous or denounced as a constraining norm, when it is simply reduced to a pure spectacle accompanied by a rehabilitation or even exaltation of deformity and ugliness, as can be seen in many areas. The degeneration of beauty and the promotion of ugliness, tied to the flowerin…
You can either grow or degenerate. Either of these is happening all around you, all the time. There is nothing called a "safe comfort zone". This is a convenient name depicting the process of degeneration.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1994).