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Adjective
/diˈgrādiNG/,
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Causing a loss of self-respect; humiliating,
  1. Causing a loss of self-respect; humiliating
    • - cruel or degrading treatment

  1. corrupting: harmful to the mind or morals; "corrupt judges and their corrupting influence"; "the vicious and degrading cult of violence"
  2. debasing: used of conduct; characterized by dishonor
  3. (degrade) reduce the level of land, as by erosion
  4. (degrade) take down: reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"
  5. (degrade) lower the grade of something; reduce its worth
  6. (degraded) debauched: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
  7. (degraded) debased: lowered in value; "the dollar is low"; "a debased currency"
  8. (The Degraded) The Degraded (Разжалованный) is the second film by Alexander Sokurov. It was released in 1980 and is only 30 minutes long.
  9. that degrades
  10. (degradingly) In a degrading manner
  11. (degrade) To lower in value or social position; To reduce in quality or purity
  12. (degraded) Feeling degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect
  13. (Degrade) Any defect that lowers the grade or quality of a log (17).
  14. (degrade) 1. To impair with respect to some physical property of a material. 2. To reduce a chemical in terms of complexity. To break down in simpler compounds.
  15. (degrade) to decompose or reduce the complexity of a chemical
  16. (degrade) to break something down. Usually to break a protein down into the original amino acids that were used to build it.
  17. (Degrade) drop back a year in your course. Usually happens because of illness.
  18. (Degrade) means to lessen or diminish in quantity, quality, or value.
  19. (degrade) to bring shame upon - 21 misses
  20. (degrade) v. to lower someone in status or role
  21. (Degraded) condition of the quality of water that has been made unfit for some specified purpose.
  22. (Degraded) This word describes a cross that has steps at each end, diminishing as they ascend toward the center.
  23. (degraded) Pertaining to a valid configuration that has suffered a failure but continues to be supported and legal. Typically, a repair action can be performed on a degraded configuration to restore it to a valid configuration.
  24. (degraded) the waterbody has been altered resulting in loss of quantity or quality of habitat available for biota.
  25. (degrades) pieces which on reinspection prove of lower quality than the grade in which they were shipped.