Crossword clues for degrade
degrade
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Degrade \De*grade"\, v. i. (Biol.) To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera.
Degrade \De*grade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Degraded; p. pr. & vb. n. Degrading.] [F. d['e]grader, LL. degradare, fr. L. de- + gradus step, degree. See Grade, and cf. Degree.]
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To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer.
Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar.
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To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man.
O miserable mankind, to what fall Degraded, to what wretched state reserved!
--Milton.Yet time ennobles or degrades each line.
--Pope.Her pride . . . struggled hard against this degrading passion.
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(Geol.) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
Syn: To abase; demean; lower; reduce. See Abase.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To lower in value or social position. 2 (context intransitive English) To reduce in quality or purity. 3 (context transitive geology English) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
WordNet
v. reduce the level of land, as by erosion [ant: aggrade]
reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture" [syn: take down, disgrace, demean, put down]
lower the grade of something; reduce its worth [syn: cheapen]
Wikipedia
Dégradé ( in Arabic)is a 2015 Palestinian drama film directed by Arab and Tarzan (also known as Mohammed Abunasser and Ahmed Abunasser). It was selected to compete in the International Critics' Week section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
Usage examples of "degrade".
Byzantine court, so ambitiously solicited by their dukes, would have degraded the magistrates of a free people.
I should either have been degraded, or rendered more amorous, and all for nothing.
We are going to destroy all enslaving anil degrading capitalist institutions and re-create them as free and humanizing institutions.
Schuschnigg had been arrested and subjected to treatment so degrading that it is difficult to believe that it was not prescribed by Hitler himself.
After a while his organs had begun to degenerate, depleted calcium levels had reduced his bones to brittle porcelain sticks, muscles had atrophied, and fluid bloated his tissues, impairing his lungs, degrading his lymphatic system.
Latin peruse the extracts I give from Bishop Kenrick, Debreyne, Burchard, Dens or Liguori, and the most incredulous will learn for themselves that the world, even in the darkest ages of old paganism, has never seen anything so infamous and degrading as auricular confession.
As for the Corticelli, she soon passed from tears to laughter, and would have done it well, but if, as I feared, the canon was a blockhead, I should have been degrading myself.
Their pursuer was barreling through the haze of bomblets, but the data was degrading as the other car fell farther behind.
Andamanese, and the wilder sort of these will hardly bear comparison with even the degraded Australian or African Bosjesman, and approximate in debasement to the Fuegians.
I think I should go mad if in my soliloquies I came across any misfortune which I could not trace to my own fault, for I should not know where to place the reason, and that would degrade me to the rank of creatures governed by instinct alone.
Then they had the men rise from the ground, and they were brought up to the cenotaph where they were armed and then degraded as is done with evil knights, and then they were returned to prison.
After a few moments of calm, thinking I should take him by surprise, I extended my hand, but I drew back terrified, for I fancied that I had recognized in him a man, and a degraded man, contemptible less on account of his degradation than for the want of feeling I thought I could read on his countenance.
I felt myself sufficiently debased by my crime, and I could not degrade myself still more by falsehood.
I grant that my profession was not a brilliant one, but I did not mind it, and, calling prejudices all the feelings which rose in my breast against myself, I was not long in sharing all the habits of my degraded comrades.
This thought made me resolve to impersonate the master myself, but thinking that I should not care to see my lover degraded to the rank of a servant, I determined that he should be my wife, supposing that the captain of the ship did not know him by sight.