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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Degrade :: Degrade (v. t.) To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer..
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.
Degraded :: Degraded (a.) Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base..
Diggers :: Diggers (n. pl.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
Disbase :: Disbase (v. t.) To debase or degrade.
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..
Vilify :: Vilify (v. t.) To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate.
Demean :: Demean (v. t.) To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Linguatulina :: Linguatulina (n. pl.) An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. They have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. Called also Pentastomida..
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..
Uncardinal :: Uncardinal (v. t.) To degrade from the cardinalship.
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..
Bestialize :: Bestialize (v. t.) To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize..
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..
Demissionary :: Demissionary (a.) Tending to lower, depress, or degrade..
Vilify :: Vilify (v. t.) To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.
Disgraduate :: Disgraduate (v. t.) To degrade; to reduce in rank.
Degrade :: Degrade (v. t.) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down..
Disrank :: Disrank (v. t.) To degrade from rank.
Disparage :: Disparage (v. t.) To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage.
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