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Verb
/diˈgrād/,
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degrades, 3rd person singular present; degraded, past participle; degrading, present participle; degraded, past tense;
  1. Treat or regard (someone) with contempt or disrespect
    • - she thought that many supposedly erotic pictures degraded women
  2. Lower the character or quality of
    • - repeaters clean up and amplify the degraded signal
  3. Reduce (someone) to a lower rank, esp. as a punishment
    • - he was degraded from his high estate
  4. Break down or deteriorate chemically
    • - when exposed to light, the materials will degrade
    • - the bacteria will degrade hydrocarbons
  5. Reduce (energy) to a less readily convertible form

  6. Wear down (rock) and cause it to disintegrate

  1. reduce the level of land, as by erosion
  2. 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"
  3. lower the grade of something; reduce its worth
  4. (degraded) debauched: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
  5. (degraded) debased: lowered in value; "the dollar is low"; "a debased currency"
  6. (degradation) changing to a lower state (a less respected state)
  7. (Degradation (geology)) In geology, degradation refers to the lowering of a fluvial surface, such as a stream bed or floodplain, through erosional processes. It is the opposite of aggradation. ...
  8. (Degradation (telecommunications)) In telecommunication, degradation, which may be categorized as either "graceful" or "catastrophic", has the following meanings: #The deterioration in quality, level, or standard of performance of a functional unit. ...
  9. (The Degraded) The Degraded (Разжалованный) is the second film by Alexander Sokurov. It was released in 1980 and is only 30 minutes long.
  10. To lower in value or social position; To reduce in quality or purity
  11. (degraded) Feeling degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect
  12. (degradation) The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop; The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; ...
  13. (degrading) that degrades
  14. (Degraded) This word describes a cross that has steps at each end, diminishing as they ascend toward the center.
  15. (Degraded) condition of the quality of water that has been made unfit for some specified purpose
  16. (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.
  17. (degraded) the waterbody has been altered resulting in loss of quantity or quality of habitat available for biota.
  18. (degrades) pieces which on reinspection prove of lower quality than the grade in which they were shipped.
  19. (degradation) Chemical or biological breakdown of a complex compound into simpler compounds.
  20. (Degradation) A decrease in the quality of a desired signal (i.e., decrease in the signal-to-noise ratio or an increase in distortion), or an undesired change in the operational performance of equipment as the result of interference.
  21. (DEGRADATION) The loss of desirable physical properties of a textile material due to some process or physical, chemical or thermal phenomenon.
  22. (Degradation) the progressive failure of a machine or lubricant.
  23. (degradation (1)) In geology, a process by which wind and water wear down and carry away parts of the surface of the earth, reducing their general elevation. (2) The breakdown of substances by biological action.
  24. (degradation) process by which a chemical is reduced to a less complex form
  25. (degradation) lowering the quality of a resource, polluting it