Decrease and Degenerate

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

noun

• A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior.
  • synonyms: pervert, deviant, deviate

verb

• Grow worse.
  • usage: "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
  • synonyms: devolve, deteriorate, drop

adjective

• Unrestrained by convention or morality.
  • usage: "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
  • synonyms: debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast

• (a.) 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.
• (v.i.) 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.
• (v.i.) To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.