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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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..
Louse :: Louse (n.) Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga..
Disgraduate :: Disgraduate (v. t.) To degrade; to reduce in rank.
Diminish :: Diminish (v. t.) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.
Beast :: Beast (n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow..
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.
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..
Imbrute :: Imbrute (v. t.) To degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal.
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..
Self-degradation :: Self-degradation (n.) The act of degrading one's self, or the state of being so degraded..
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.
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..
Disrank :: Disrank (v. t.) To degrade from rank.
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..
Shend :: Shend (n.) To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or put to shame..
Fallen :: Fallen (a.) Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.
Disgrade :: Disgrade (v. t.) To degrade.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To degrade.
Villain :: Villain (v. t.) To debase; to degrade.
Demissionary :: Demissionary (a.) Tending to lower, depress, or degrade..
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