Difference between Deteriorate and Degenerate

DETERIORATE vs DEGENERATE: NOUN

A depraved or corrupt person.
A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
One who has retrograded from a normal type or standard, especially in moral nature and character, and exhibits certain morbid physical and mental traits and tendencies.
A person who has declined from a high standard, especially a sexual deviate; -- usually used disparagingly or opprobriously of persons whose sexual behavior does not conform to the norms of accepted morals.
A person or thing that has fallen from a higher to a lower state, or reverted to an earlier type or stage of development or culture.
One is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.

Characterized by degeneration, as of tissue, a cell, or an organ.
Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to an undesirable and typically abnormal
Having lost one or more highly developed functions, characteristics, or structures through evolution.
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.
Having lost good or desirable qualities
Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range
A degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class.
Having the same quantum energy level
Relating to or being a gene that has multiple codons for the same amino acid.
Characterized by great density and consisting of atoms stripped of electrons.
Unrestrained by convention or morality
Having declined, as in function or nature, from a former or original state.
Morally corrupt or given to vice.
Relating to two or more quantum states that share the same quantum numbers.

To fall below a normal or desirable state, especially functionally or morally; deteriorate.
To undergo degeneration.
To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate.
To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.
To decline in quality.

Grow progressively worse
To grow worse; be or become impaired in quality; degenerate.
To make worse; reduce in quality; lower the essential character or constitution of: as, to deteriorate a race of men or their condition.

To lose, or become impaired with respect to, the qualities proper to the race or kind, or to a prototype; become of a lower type.
Specifically To decay in quality; pass to an inferior or a worse state; suffer a decline in character or constitution; deteriorate.
Synonyms To deteriorate, decline.
Having lost, or become impaired with respect to, the qualities proper to the race or kind; having been reduced to a lower type.
Specifically Having fallen into a less excellent or a worse state; having declined in physical or moral qualities; deteriorated; degraded.
Characterized by or associated with degeneracy; unworthy; debased: applied to inanimate objects.
Grow progressively worse

Impair, Decline, Aggravate, Suffer, Decay, Grow, Fester, Rot, Exacerbate, Degrade, Escalate, Erode, Worsen, Drop, Degenerate

Escalate, Fast, Drop, Pervert, Deviate, Profligate, Dissipated, Immoral, Dissolute, Deviant, Libertine, Riotous, Degraded, Debauched, Deteriorate

Perish, Deepen, Impair, Decline, Aggravate, Suffer, Decay, Grow, Fester, Rot, Exacerbate, Escalate, Erode, Worsen, Degenerate

Worsen, Escalate, Fast, Pervert, Deviate, Profligate, Dissipated, Immoral, Dissolute, Deviant, Libertine, Riotous, Degraded, Debauched, Deteriorate

They allowed the relationship to degenerate through neglect.
These accessions were not tested with degenerate primers.
Birthmarks are usually harmless, but can also degenerate.
Unfortunately, this can also lead to degenerate cases.
Degenerate past you would this again very little.
Density Bounds for some Degenerate Stable Driven SDEs.
Neil Rochlani and Dan Besbris are degenerate gamblers.
How fast do intervertebral discs degenerate and rupture?
The contained spermatozoa lose viability and eventually degenerate.
Degenerate Dimensions: If a table contains the values, which r neither dimension nor measures is called degenerate dimensions.