Object

• primer: All virus isolates tested were successfully amplified using degenerate primers designed by Deng et al; 1994.

• state: This was a token, not of progress, but of an unnatural and degenerate state of things.

Preposition: into

• toccata: Buxtehude's obviously out - except for the one or two that don't degenerate into toccatas.

• 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.

• slowly: The type of disease, these children had also involved the brain and they would slowly degenerate over a number of years.

• easily: The latter can too easily degenerate into psychic manipulation.