"To 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 | |
| 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) | |
| 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 | |
| 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 degenerate | |
| 蜕化变质 | tuì huà biàn zhì | to degenerate (morally) (idiom) / to become depraved | |
