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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

  1. adj Having declined from a former, better state; deteriorated.
  2. noun A person seen as morally corrupt or of poor character.
  3. verb To decline in quality, structure, or character over time.

involution — full definition

  1. noun Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.
  2. noun A complicated grammatical construction.
  3. noun An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
  4. noun The shrinking of an organ (such as the uterus) to a former size.

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