Definition of degrade

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Degrade (v. t.) 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..

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Degraded :: Degraded (a.) Having steps; -- said of a cross each of whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center; -- termed also on degrees.
Debase :: Debase (a.) To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words..
Slum :: Slum (n.) A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives..
Imbrute :: Imbrute (v. t.) To degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal.
Hangdog :: Hangdog (n.) A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird..
Sink :: Sink (v. t.) Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation..
Disparage :: Disparage (v. t.) To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage.
Disennoble :: Disennoble (v. t.) To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade.
Bestialize :: Bestialize (v. t.) To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize..
Linguatulina :: Linguatulina (n. pl.) An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. They have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. Called also Pentastomida..
Degradement :: Degradement (n.) Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.
Beast :: Beast (n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow..
Hottentot :: Hottentot (n.) One of a degraded and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts..
Samoyedes :: Samoyedes (n. pl.) An ignorant and degraded Turanian tribe which occupies a portion of Northern Russia and a part of Siberia.
Disworth :: Disworth (v. t.) To deprive of worth; to degrade.
Deposer :: Deposer (n.) One who deposes or degrades from office.
Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat..
Degraded :: Degraded (a.) Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base..
Degradation :: Degradation (n.) The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
Disgrade :: Disgrade (v. t.) To degrade.
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