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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