degenerate

Object

• primer: All virus isolates tested were successfully amplified using degenerate primers designed by Deng et al; 1994.
• disk: In a degenerating disk, the major problem is a reduction in the water content, affecting its ability to resist compressive forces.
• worker: It did attempt to say what a workers ' state, or a degenerated workers ' state, was or was not.
• state: This was a token, not of progress, but of an unnatural and degenerate state of things.
• form: One might, I suppose, once have argued in desperation that there were after all great revolutions, but in a degenerated form.

Preposition: into

• toccata: Buxtehude's obviously out - except for the one or two that don't degenerate into toccatas.
• farce: Ticket sales for the 2004 Sidmouth festival degenerated into near farce early in May.
• chaos: Before the whole thing degenerated into chaos, of course.
• mess: Your coordination and efficiency break down and the movement degenerates into a sloppy, shapeless mess.
• violence: We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
• abuse: I was also nervous that the meeting would degenerate into verbal abuse between people of different views.

Modifies a noun

• case: NOTE essentially, the degenerate case of a linked list.
• form: It has been, until recently, wrongly dismissed as a degenerate form of Buddhism Ceremony and ritual are emphasized.

Modifying Another Word

• quickly: Seasonal marches could also quickly degenerate into communal rioting.
• rapidly: The imperialist world is rapidly degenerating into total farce!
• slowly: The type of disease, these children had also involved the brain and they would slowly degenerate over a number of years.
• soon: The game soon degenerated into a midfield battle with neither team able to show much in the way of creativity.
• easily: The latter can too easily degenerate into psychic manipulation.
• sometimes: Under these conditions debate sometimes degenerated into quibbles over points of Portuguese grammar.