Definition of degrade

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Degrade (v. i.) To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera..

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Unmitre :: Unmitre (v. t.) To deprive of a miter; to depose or degrade from the rank of a bishop.
Extenuate :: Extenuate (v. t.) To lower or degrade; to detract from.
Embase :: Embase (v. t.) To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate..
Minify :: Minify (v. t.) To degrade by speech or action.
Negritos :: Negritos (n. pl.) A degraded Papuan race, inhabiting Luzon and some of the other east Indian Islands. They resemble negroes, but are smaller in size. They are mostly nomads..
Abject :: Abject (a.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase..
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..
Vilify :: Vilify (v. t.) To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate.
Uncardinal :: Uncardinal (v. t.) To degrade from the cardinalship.
Disbase :: Disbase (v. t.) To debase or degrade.
Outcast :: Outcast (a.) Cast out; degraded.
Degraded :: Degraded (imp. & p. p.) of Degrad.
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..
Hangdog :: Hangdog (n.) A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird..
Vilify :: Vilify (v. t.) To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.
Disparage :: Disparage (v. t.) To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage.
Shame :: Shame (n.) The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace..
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..
Disennoble :: Disennoble (v. t.) To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade.
Demissionary :: Demissionary (a.) Tending to lower, depress, or degrade..
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