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单词 degrade
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degradeverb

uk/dɪˈɡreɪd/us/dɪˈɡreɪd/

degrade verb (LOSE RESPECT)

[ T ] to cause people to feel that they or other people have no value and do not have the respect or good opinion of others:

Pornography degrades women.

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Humiliating and degrading

  • abase
  • be under a cloud idiom
  • bring/take sb down a peg (or two) idiom
  • bruise
  • bruise sb's ego idiom
  • compromise
  • cut sb down to size idiom
  • deflate
  • dishonour
  • doghouse
  • exhibition
  • fall from grace idiom
  • forget
  • in the doghouse idiom
  • indignity
  • knock
  • knock sb off their pedestal idiom 1
  • knock sb off their pedestal
  • peg
  • stoop to sth

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degrade verb (SPOIL)

[ T ] to spoil or destroy the beauty or quality of something:

Every day the environment is further degraded by toxic wastes.

[ I or T ] specialized electronics If the quality of something electrical or electronic degrades or is degraded, it becomes less good or less correct.

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Damaging and spoiling

  • adulterate
  • alloy
  • at the expense of sb idiom
  • at-risk
  • bandh
  • bang up sb/sth
  • gild the lily idiom
  • gloss
  • gnaw
  • gnaw away at sth
  • go west idiom
  • goonda
  • poison
  • ravages
  • ruin
  • scourge
  • shatter
  • shoot sth up
  • sour
  • tell on sb

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Deteriorating and making worse

degrade verb (CHANGE STRUCTURE)

[ I ] specialized chemistry (of a substance) to change into a more simple chemical structure:

These chemicals quickly degrade into harmless compounds.
See also
biodegrade

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Physical & chemical processes

  • addition reaction
  • adiabatic
  • adsorb
  • advection
  • alpha decay
  • degradable
  • diffraction
  • dissolve
  • exothermic reaction
  • impregnate
  • processus
  • redox
  • refraction
  • rehydrate
  • saponification
  • scald
  • secretion
  • suction
  • the carbon cycle
  • vaporize

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