退化

tuìhuà
  1. to degenerate
  2. atrophy

CEDICT

  1. (mathematics) degeneracy
  2. degeneracy
  3. to degenerate; to atrophy
  4. to deteriorate; to worsen; to decline; to fall; to drop

Wiktionary

  1. 生物內的某種器官或功能，構造逐漸簡單，或作用逐漸喪失的現象。如仙人掌的葉子退化成針狀。
  2. 邊陲地帶的勞工、資源及資金等，不斷流向核心區，以致本身的發展停滯，逐漸衰退的現象。
  3. 衰退、衰落。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 退 tuì
  1. to retreat; to withdraw
  2. to reject; to return (sth)
  3. to decline
2 化 huà
  1. to make into
  2. to change into
  3. -ization
  4. to ... -ize
  5. to transform
  6. abbr. for 化學 huàxué

Containing this entry

土地退化 tǔdìtuìhuà

Related entries

淪落 lúnluò
  1. to degenerate
  2. impoverished
  3. to fall (into poverty)
  4. to be reduced (to begging)
墮 duò
  1. to fall; to sink
  2. (fig.) to degenerate
墮落 duòluò
  1. to degrade
  2. to degenerate
  3. to become depraved
  4. corrupt
  5. a fall from grace
在思想的領域中, 荒誕和墮落仍然主宰著世界, 它們的操控只是短時間地被暫停。

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Source: Tatoeba

變壞 biànhuài
  1. to get worse
  2. to degenerate
退行 tuìxíng
  1. to recede
  2. to degenerate
  3. to regress
淪陷 lúnxiàn
  1. to fall into enemy hands
  2. to be occupied
  3. to degenerate
  4. to submerge
蛻變 tuìbiàn
  1. to transform
  2. to morph
  3. to degenerate
  4. metamorphosis
  5. transmutation
  6. transformation
  7. decay
  8. degeneration
流 liú
  1. to flow
  2. to disseminate
  3. to circulate or spread
  4. to move or drift
  5. to degenerate
  6. to banish or send into exile
  7. stream of water or sth resembling one
  8. class, rate or grade
我正流着汗。

I'm dripping with sweat.

Source: Tatoeba

痿 wěi atrophy