Morally corrupted; tainted or contaminated with or guilty of (a fault, defect, or vice). Also culpably involved in (a crime, etc.).

Enfeebled, weakened; impaired. Now archaic and poetic.

Morally or spiritually corrupt; wicked; vile, offensive. Cf. rust, n.1 2. Obsolete.

= Degenerated. Obsolete or archaic.

figurative in immaterial sense: Deprived of or having lost vigour, freshness, or ‘bloom’; shrunken and decayed; †formerly sometimes, reduced to…

Illegitimate; adulterated, debased. Cf. bastardly, adj. Now rare.

Fallen from ancestral or original excellence; degenerate.

Fallen from ancestral virtue or excellence, unworthy of one's ancestry or kindred, degenerate. of persons.

Not pure or genuine; debased, degenerate, corrupt, adulterated. In later use esp. designating a form or version of something which is the result…

figurative. = worm-eaten, adj. 3.

figurative. Showing signs of advancing years; characteristic of middle age; mature; (also) designating middle age. Often in negative sense: past…

having the blood or vital principle dried up; withered.

Diminished in strength or vigour; weakened, enfeebled, impaired.

Decreased in amount, degree, or intensity.

Disembowelled; figurative deprived of vital contents.

Shaken, tottering.