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degrade Verb

— When you degrade something, you lower the esteem, worth, or respect of something, to make it base, low, mean, or worthless. Many wealthy, intelligent, and talented people were degraded by the Nazis before being sent to concentration camps. Does every comment from you need to be degrading to others?

degrade

— verb reduce the level of land, as by erosion — verb lower the grade of something; reduce its worth — verb (= put down) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally She tends to put down younger women colleagues His critics took him down after the lecture

Synonyms degrade synonyms

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degrade English » English

humiliate debase demote abase demean disgrace insult lower cheapen take down ruin reduce mortify humble drop discredit degenerate corrupt belittle wreck truncate shorten relegate put to shame put down offend downgrade dishonor diminish destroy deprave demolish deface cut short cut off crash bring down write down wipe out wear off wear down wear away wear violate vilify vanquish use up unseat treat with contempt trample

Topics degrade topics

What do people use degrade to talk about?
Social behavior Authority Status

Low status
States Quality Good

Value

Conjugation degrade conjugation

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degrade · verb

Examples degrade examples

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Simple sentences

Don't degrade yourself by telling such a lie.

Movie subtitles

It would degrade me to marry him.
I'm not sure, but I think. to where you said it would degrade you to marry him.
By stooping so low, you only degrade yourself, Waldo.
Did you have to degrade us?
You're not to abuse him physically. nor degrade his dignity as a human being.
I will not degrade myself before you again.
I just don't think that any human being should degrade himself in order to survive.
No, I will not degrade anyone.
I refuse to get up in front of a bunch of people and degrade myself.
I will never degrade you nor myself.
I may have to degrade myself in front of Divine's son.
And you know what I like about it, Nikola? I can degrade myself or elevate myself all on my own.
If I fight with him, it'll degrade me.
Throw him out, degrade him, arrest him and so on!
Are you going to degrade me further make me tell you how I have longed for you?
Ask him about his lies, about spying on you, everything, but don't degrade yourself!
That's no reason to degrade school grounds.
By having relations only with such women. you are obeying an irresistible need. to degrade all women.
You degrade everything that is human.
And he tries to degrade others.
Now you go to De Toro and you tell him that I, Chris, degrade his woman.
Do you have to degrade us?
Finding new and disgusting ways to degrade a friend's mother was always held as high regard.
Don't let them degrade me in front of all.
Father, don't dare to degrade the memories of my father!
And I won't let this degrade me at all, in case you're worried.
I think that i shall decline to answer on the grounds that it may tend to degrade or incriminate me.
I hereby degrade you to rabbit!
Finding new and preferably disgusting ways to degrade a friend's mother was always held in high regard.
I will no longer allow a born-Again punk To degrade the reputation of this firm.
How could that degrade me if it did not degrade you to have it done for you?
It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now.
I think he heard up until the bit where you said it would degrade you to marry him. Oh.
The earth will be renewed. And, say, if it's true that plastic doesn't degrade, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm, the earth plus plastic.
Your pattern would degrade to the point where your signal would be permanently lost.
The containment fields will degrade.
It's important for women to not just run in horror from pornographic images. and immediately think they represent oppression. and the power of men to degrade women.

News and current affairs

The five-day delay in allowing UN chemical-weapons experts to verify the attack gave Assad's government ample time to conceal incriminating evidence, allow it to degrade, or destroy it with further shelling.
Or will prosperity slip through our fingers as greed and corruption lead us to deplete vital resources and degrade the natural environment on which human well-being depends?
In allowing so many lives to be blighted through genital mutilation, we degrade ourselves and our world.
Turkey is a member of the coalition against Daesh, and we are seeking to degrade and destroy this terrorist menace in our country and beyond our borders.
Operating within this framework, US and coalition forces would clearly be entitled to disrupt, degrade, and seek to destroy the Islamic State's capability in a way that would also serve the counter-terrorist objective.
Geremek knew that exclusion and enslavement destroy human dignity, and degrade our humanity.
If they can significantly degrade the militia's strength, or at least contain its influence within Baghdad's Shi'a slums, the Iraqi government will have a somewhat better chance of developing a credible security force and Bush can claim some success.
The more that US forces can degrade the Mahdi Army's position and force Sadr into face-saving political moves, the weaker the militia will be relative to other forces in Iraq after US troops head home.
After all, if left unchecked, global warming has the potential to degrade and destroy the climactic conditions that underlay and made possible the rise of human civilization over the last ten millennia.
According to this view, many cellular and organic processes thus degrade concurrently, and aging has many causes.
Obama does have constitutional authority to conduct limited military strikes to deter and degrade Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's ability to use chemical weapons.
To treat a vote as an instrument of profit would be to degrade it, to corrupt its meaning as an expression of civic duty.
So it boggles many non-Americans' minds that so many in that great nation still do not wake up to the reality that four more years of Republican rule will further degrade and bankrupt the country.

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