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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Shame :: Shame (n.) The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace..
Minify :: Minify (v. t.) To degrade by speech or action.
Degradement :: Degradement (n.) Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.
Unmitre :: Unmitre (v. t.) To deprive of a miter; to depose or degrade from the rank of a bishop.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To degrade.
Samoyedes :: Samoyedes (n. pl.) An ignorant and degraded Turanian tribe which occupies a portion of Northern Russia and a part of Siberia.
Vilify :: Vilify (v. t.) To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate.
Demean :: Demean (v. t.) To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Degradation :: Degradation (n.) The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
Disworth :: Disworth (v. t.) To deprive of worth; to degrade.
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..
Deposer :: Deposer (n.) One who deposes or degrades from office.
Embase :: Embase (v. t.) To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate..
Disgraduate :: Disgraduate (v. t.) To degrade; to reduce in rank.
Beast :: Beast (n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow..
Villain :: Villain (v. t.) To debase; to degrade.
Louse :: Louse (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc..
Fallen :: Fallen (a.) Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.
Diggers :: Diggers (n. pl.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
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..
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