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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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..
Outcast :: Outcast (n.) One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond..
Beast :: Beast (n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow..
Utes :: Utes (n. pl.) An extensive tribe of North American Indians of the Shoshone stock, inhabiting Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and adjacent regions. They are subdivided into several subordinate tribes, some of which are among the most degraded of North American Indians..
Samoyedes :: Samoyedes (n. pl.) An ignorant and degraded Turanian tribe which occupies a portion of Northern Russia and a part of Siberia.
Degraded :: Degraded (imp. & p. p.) of Degrad.
Diggers :: Diggers (n. pl.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
Disrank :: Disrank (v. t.) To degrade from rank.
Bestialize :: Bestialize (v. t.) To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize..
Uncardinal :: Uncardinal (v. t.) To degrade from the cardinalship.
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.) Having steps; -- said of a cross each of whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center; -- termed also on degrees.
Demissionary :: Demissionary (a.) Tending to lower, depress, or degrade..
Degradation :: Degradation (n.) The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
Derogate :: Derogate (n.) Diminished in value; dishonored; degraded.
Degradement :: Degradement (n.) Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.
Outcast :: Outcast (a.) Cast out; degraded.
Unmitre :: Unmitre (v. t.) To deprive of a miter; to depose or degrade from the rank of a bishop.
Embase :: Embase (v. t.) To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate..
Unmartyr :: Unmartyr (v. t.) To degrade from the rank of a martyr.
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