Definition of degrade

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Degrade (v. t.) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down..

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Vilify :: Vilify (v. t.) To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate.
Degraded :: Degraded (imp. & p. p.) of Degrad.
Disbase :: Disbase (v. t.) To debase or degrade.
Degrade :: 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..
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..
Degraded :: Degraded (a.) Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base..
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..
Abase :: Abase (a.) To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade..
Abject :: Abject (a.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase..
Uncardinal :: Uncardinal (v. t.) To degrade from the cardinalship.
Undeify :: Undeify (v. t.) To degrade from the state of deity; to deprive of the character or qualities of a god; to deprive of the reverence due to a god.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To degrade.
Diggers :: Diggers (n. pl.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
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..
Hangdog :: Hangdog (n.) A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird..
Disparage :: Disparage (v. t.) To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage.
Unmartyr :: Unmartyr (v. t.) To degrade from the rank of a martyr.
Displume :: Displume (v. t.) To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade..
Abject :: Abject (a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts..
Disennoble :: Disennoble (v. t.) To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade.
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