degrade
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French dégrader.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eɪd
Verb edit
degrade (third-person singular simple present degrades, present participle degrading, simple past and past participle degraded)
- (transitive) To lower in value or social position.
- Fred degrades himself by his behaviour.
- 1858, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter XIV, in History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty. […], volume I, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, book I, pages 563–564:
- […] [William] Prynne was sentenced by the Star-Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar, to stand in pillory at two places in London and lose an ear at each, to be branded on the forehead, to pay a fine of five thousand pounds, and to be imprisoned for life.
- (intransitive, ergative) To reduce in quality or purity.
- The DNA sample has degraded.
- (transitive, geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
to lower in value or social position
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to reduce in quality or purity
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to reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down
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Portuguese edit
Verb edit
degrade
- inflection of degradar:
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
degrade n (plural degradeuri)
- color gradient
Declension edit
Declension of degrade
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) degrade | degradeul | (niște) degradeuri | degradeurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) degrade | degradeului | (unor) degradeuri | degradeurilor |
vocative | degradeule | degradeurilor |
Spanish edit
Verb edit
degrade
- inflection of degradar: