"Degenerate" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 堕落 | duò luò | to degrade / to degenerate / to become depraved / corrupt / a fall from grace |   |
| 变质 | biàn zhì | to degenerate / to deteriorate / (of food) to go bad / to go off / (geology) metamorphism | |
| 腐朽 | fǔ xiǔ | rotten / decayed / decadent / degenerate | |
| 退化 | tuì huà | to degenerate / atrophy | |
| 蜕变 | tuì biàn | to transform / to morph / to degenerate / metamorphosis / transmutation / transformation / decay / degeneration | |
| 沦落 | lún luò | to degenerate / impoverished / to fall (into poverty) / to be reduced (to begging) | |
| 败类 | bài lèi | scum of a community / degenerate | |
| 沦陷 | lún xiàn | to fall into enemy hands / to be occupied / to degenerate / to submerge | |
| 变坏 | biàn huài | to get worse / to degenerate | |
| 不肖 | bù xiào | (literary) unlike one's parents / degenerate / unworthy | |
| 流 |  liú | to flow / to disseminate / to circulate or spread / to move or drift / to degenerate / to banish or send into exile / stream of water or sth resembling one / class, rate or grade | |
| 退行 | tuì xíng | to recede / to degenerate / to regress | |
| 堕 | duò | to fall / to sink / (fig.) to degenerate | |
| 颓放 | tuí fàng | decadent / dissolute / degenerate | |
| 蜕化变质 | tuì huà biàn zhì | (idiom) to degenerate (morally) / to become depraved | |
| 落水 | luò shuǐ | to fall into water / to sink / overboard / fig. to degenerate / to sink (into depravity) / to go to the dogs | |
| 淫乐 | yín lè | vice / degenerate pleasures | |
| 末流 | mò liú | late degenerate stage | |
| 颓风 | tuí fēng | degenerate custom / decadent ways | |
| 简并星 | jiǎn bìng xīng | degenerate star | |
