What is "degrades"

Usage examples of "degrades".

They were ignorant how much this passive disposition enervates and degrades every faculty of the mind.

We may not be able to explain why servile imitation of nature degrades art and degrades woman, but both deteriorate without an ideal so high that there is no earthly model for it.

Yet it is nevertheless true that so long as a girl is not to know how to take care of herself, not to know the function of the most important part of her life, we need not be surprised if she becomes an easy prey to prostitution, or to any other form of a relationship which degrades her to the position of an object for mere sex gratification.

He degrades the dignity of man and he degrades the conception of love.