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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Abject :: Abject (a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts..
Demean :: Demean (v. t.) To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Shame :: Shame (n.) The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace..
Diggers :: Diggers (n. pl.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
Lessen :: Lessen (a.) To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, rank, fortune..
Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To degrade.
Degraded :: Degraded (a.) Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base..
Sink :: Sink (v. t.) Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation..
Fallen :: Fallen (a.) Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.
Degradation :: Degradation (n.) The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
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..
Unmitre :: Unmitre (v. t.) To deprive of a miter; to depose or degrade from the rank of a bishop.
Self-degradation :: Self-degradation (n.) The act of degrading one's self, or the state of being so degraded..
Disgraduate :: Disgraduate (v. t.) To degrade; to reduce in rank.
Abject :: Abject (a.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase..
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..
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..
Villain :: Villain (v. t.) To debase; to degrade.
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..
Bestialize :: Bestialize (v. t.) To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize..
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