All 3 Uses of
degenerate
in
Anna Karenina
- "Come, is Babylon reformed, or have you degenerated?" she added, glancing with a simper at Kitty.†
Part 1 *
- One thing he did with more sincerity confess to was that living so long in Moscow, a life of nothing but conversation, eating and drinking, he was degenerating.†
Part 7
- In Moscow he degenerated so much that if he had had to be there for long together, he might in good earnest have come to considering his salvation; in Petersburg he felt himself a man of the world again.†
Part 7
Definition:
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(degenerate) to grow worse; or describing a person or situation that is worse in the sense of deviating from what is socially acceptable