Definition of degrade

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

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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..
Vilify :: Vilify (v. t.) To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate.
Outcast :: Outcast (a.) Cast out; degraded.
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..
Demissionary :: Demissionary (a.) Tending to lower, depress, or degrade..
Disgrade :: Disgrade (v. t.) To degrade.
Vilify :: Vilify (v. t.) To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.
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..
Bestialize :: Bestialize (v. t.) To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize..
Disworth :: Disworth (v. t.) To deprive of worth; to degrade.
Abject :: Abject (a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts..
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.
Samoyedes :: Samoyedes (n. pl.) An ignorant and degraded Turanian tribe which occupies a portion of Northern Russia and a part of Siberia.
Self-degradation :: Self-degradation (n.) The act of degrading one's self, or the state of being so degraded..
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..
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..
Disennoble :: Disennoble (v. t.) To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade.
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..
Embase :: Embase (v. t.) To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate..
Abase :: Abase (a.) To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade..
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