0 past simple and past participle of degrade
1 to cause people to feel that they or other people have no value and do not have the respect or good opinion of others:
Pornography degrades women.
2 to spoil or destroy the beauty or quality of something:
Every day the environment is further degraded by toxic wastes.
3 (of a substance) to change into a more simple chemical structure:
It is not possible to find a degraded version to realise the service; it has to be stopped.
Subjects show a pattern of results similar to that of model simulations as sensory input is degraded.
On one level the river of art history is flowing inexorably ' down ' over the course of centuries, towards the degraded end of earthly sensuality.
On the one hand, they have traditionally been seen by highbrow critics as a low, degraded form of artistic expression.
Changes such as increased participation of open-forest species in flocks in degraded fragments, seem to be simple consequences of alterations of fragment bird communities.
At the same time there is a reassertion of patronage directed toward a degraded patrician relic.
The unstable or partially folded mutant protein does not undergo trafficking and is usually rapidly degraded.
The view that shared degradation was the basis of preferring the claims of degraded heirs became law until the end of the nineteenth century.
