Degenerate
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: (of qualities) having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to an undesirable and typically abnormal (of a human or system) having lost good or desirable qualities (of an encoding or function) having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range a degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: One is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: (of humans or systems) to lose good or desirable qualities;
Example sentence: Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Devolve
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to delegate something to someone elseto be inherited by someonea slow degradation