degenerate
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English > Greek (Woodhouse)
adjective
P. and V. χείρων, κακίων, P. καταδεέστερος.
verb intransitive
P. ἐκπίπτειν, ἐξίστασθαι, ἀποκλίνειν, ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον μεταβάλλεσθαι.
he did not degenerate into inaction: P. οὐκ ἐπὶ τὸ ῥᾳθυμεῖν ἀπέκλινεν (Dem. 13).