degrade
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French dégrader.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈɡɹeɪd/, /diˈɡɹeɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪd
Verb
editdegrade (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
editTranslations
editto 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
editVerb
editdegrade
- inflection of degradar:
Romanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editdegrade n (plural degradeuri)
- color gradient
Declension
editDeclension 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
editVerb
editdegrade
- inflection of degradar:
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