Degenerate rhymes with:
accurate, barbiturate, commensurate, confederate, conglomerate, considerate, corporate, deliberate, directorate, doctorate, electorate, emirate, everett, illiterate, inaccurate, inspectorate, intemperate, interoperate, inveterate, literate, moderate, obdurate, protectorate, reverberate, triumvirate
Degenerate sounds like:
dagenhart, degenerated, degenhardt, degenhart, dishonored