Degenerate (8)
'degenerate' is the definition.
(to relapse is to degenerate or regress)
This is all the clue.
(Other definitions for relapse that I've seen before include "Get into bad habits again" , "Fall back into bad health" , "causing setback to recovery" , "Fall back like leapers" , "Become ill again" .)
'degenerate' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)
This is all the clue.
(Other definitions for immoral that I've seen before include "Lacking a sense of right and wrong" , "Abandoned" , "Sexually dissolute" , "Promiscuous" , "scruples" .)
'degenerate' is the definition.
(I know that degenerate can be written as devolve)
This is all the clue.
(Other definitions for devolve that I've seen before include "Transfer (to regions)" , "Transfer power" , "Delegate" , "Pass powers to regional government" .)
'degenerate' is the definition.
(I know that degenerate can be written as decadent)
This is all the clue.
(Other definitions for decadent that I've seen before include "Reflecting cultural decline" , "Self-indulgent or immoral" , "Culturally in decline" , "abandoned" , "Decanted in corrupt way" .)