退化 — meaning in English
tuì huà
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English meaning
- degenerate adj Having declined from a former, better state; deteriorated.
- involution noun Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.
Senses
退化 is used for these senses in English:
- degenerate (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.
- involution (medicine) The shrinking of an organ (such as the uterus) to a former size.
degenerate — full definition
- adj Having declined from a former, better state; deteriorated.
- noun A person seen as morally corrupt or of poor character.
- verb To decline in quality, structure, or character over time.
involution — full definition
- noun Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.
- noun A complicated grammatical construction.
- noun An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
- noun The shrinking of an organ (such as the uterus) to a former size.