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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Disgraduate :: Disgraduate (v. t.) To degrade; to reduce in rank.
Disennoble :: Disennoble (v. t.) To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade.
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.
Shend :: Shend (n.) To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or put to shame..
Embase :: Embase (v. t.) To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate..
Bestialize :: Bestialize (v. t.) To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize..
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..
Beast :: Beast (n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow..
Displume :: Displume (v. t.) To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade..
Degraded :: Degraded (a.) Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base..
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..
Disgrade :: Disgrade (v. t.) To degrade.
Villanize :: Villanize (v. t.) To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to revile.
Abject :: Abject (a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts..
Hangdog :: Hangdog (n.) A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird..
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..
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..
Louse :: Louse (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc..
Disrank :: Disrank (v. t.) To degrade from rank.
Disrate :: Disrate (v. t.) To reduce to a lower rating or rank; to degrade.
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