degenerate vs wild animal

degenerate

noun
  • One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature. 

adj
  • Having lost good or desirable qualities. 

  • Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal; an immoral or corrupt person. 

  • Having the same quantum energy level. 

  • Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range. 

  • Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors. 

verb
  • To cause to lose good or desirable qualities. 

  • To lose good or desirable qualities. 

wild animal

noun
  • Any animal living in a natural, undomesticated state. 

  • One exhibiting uncontrolled behaviour. 

How often have the words degenerate and wild animal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )