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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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..
Degrade :: Degrade (v. t.) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down..
Uncardinal :: Uncardinal (v. t.) To degrade from the cardinalship.
Self-degradation :: Self-degradation (n.) The act of degrading one's self, or the state of being so degraded..
Shame :: Shame (n.) The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace..
Unmitre :: Unmitre (v. t.) To deprive of a miter; to depose or degrade from the rank of a bishop.
Degrade :: 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..
Disgraduate :: Disgraduate (v. t.) To degrade; to reduce in rank.
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..
Degraded :: Degraded (imp. & p. p.) of Degrad.
Hangdog :: Hangdog (n.) A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird..
Disennoble :: Disennoble (v. t.) To deprive of that which ennobles; to 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..
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..
Voodooism :: Voodooism (n.) A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism..
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..
Fallen :: Fallen (a.) Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.
Demean :: Demean (v. t.) To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Shend :: Shend (n.) To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or put to shame..
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..
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