Definition of degrade

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Degrade (v. t.) 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..

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Degrade :: 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..
Diminish :: Diminish (v. t.) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.
Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin..
Abject :: Abject (a.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase..
Disparage :: Disparage (v. t.) To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage.
Demissionary :: Demissionary (a.) Tending to lower, depress, or degrade..
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..
Degraded :: Degraded (a.) Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base..
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..
Degraded :: Degraded (a.) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts..
Degenerate :: Degenerate (a.) Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low..
Vilify :: Vilify (v. t.) To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate.
Bestialize :: Bestialize (v. t.) To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize..
Villain :: Villain (v. t.) To debase; to degrade.
Shame :: Shame (n.) The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace..
Beast :: Beast (n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow..
Derogate :: Derogate (n.) Diminished in value; dishonored; degraded.
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..
Disbase :: Disbase (v. t.) To debase or degrade.
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