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Definition of degrade

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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..

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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.

Degradation :: Degradation (n.) The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.

Vilify :: Vilify (v. t.) To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.

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..

Shame :: Shame (n.) The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace..

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..

Unphilosophize :: Unphilosophize (v. t.) To degrade from the character of a philosopher.

Minify :: Minify (v. t.) To degrade by speech or action.

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..

Demissionary :: Demissionary (a.) Tending to lower, depress, or degrade..

Bestialize :: Bestialize (v. t.) To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize..

Disparage :: Disparage (v. t.) To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage.

Beast :: Beast (n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow..

Fallen :: Fallen (a.) Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.

Degrade :: Degrade (v. t.) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down..

Diggers :: Diggers (n. pl.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.

Disennoble :: Disennoble (v. t.) To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade.

Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To degrade.

Demean :: Demean (v. t.) To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.

Vilify :: Vilify (v. t.) To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate.