to degrade
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- verb
- /dɪˈɡreɪd/
- And you know the other thing is that underfunding our colleges really, it really degrades the choice that individuals have in their area too.
- degrade performance
- degrade the system
- degrade the signal
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Watch on YouTubeThis is going to degrade these American companies.
- This is going to degrade these American companies.
- Like having horrible relationships with people, that degrades the quality of your life.
- So you pick one mass charge, you throw in something that's going to degrade it by fragmentation.
- I, I, I think the easy, if you're growing so fast and the customer experience starts to degrade, you're hurting yourself.
- Well, the problem is that the person who's contemptuous, that person's immune system also degrades, right over time, right?
- Your psyche will store that up and it will degrade, degrade your character.
- And first of all, you degrade their institutions, which we're seeing done at the moment.
- That is to say, we're not entitled to take what we, what we found on arrival and degrade it.
- There's no question that the number of times I use that file doesn't really degrade the file because it's it's in fact digital.
- And and that includes being being able to grow food that isn't wasting water, using up too much land, degrading the soil.
- OK, so we're, we're at we're at a point now where serious jobs have been serious degraded and earn much less money than they used to.
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We degrade this Parliament at our peril.
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We have ease of access to things that make you sick, that degrade your health, that degrade your mental health.
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So in the in the medium term, that might create more bad cops, you know, like it might degrade the quality of the average cop.
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Like having horrible relationships with people, that degrades the quality of your life.
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Eliminating or reducing a cell's means of raising and transferring funds will significantly degrade that cell's capabilities.
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As a result of the VT shift, data retention time is also degraded, and errors occur.
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Exposure to pollution can degrade the quality of the air we breathe.
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Constant stress can severely degrade your physical and mental well-being.
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Using low-grade materials will degrade the overall durability of the product.
Synonyms
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4.2
Gradually make someone's trust, belief, or support weaker over time
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4.9
To make something lower in rank, value or importance
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4.7
Make a person or thing seem less important
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5.9
Make something seem less good or less valuable
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4.3
To make something seem less valuable, often by lowering its price or quality
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5.0
To make something seem less important or respected
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Make a person, community, or land poor
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To make something worth less by adding cheaper material
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To make something lower quality by changing it from its original form
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Make a person or thing seem less important and less valuable
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To make something seem less valuable or important
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To fall into ruin or cause something to fall into ruin because it is not cared for
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Etymology
Degrade comes from the parts de- 'down' and gradus 'step', the same root in grade and graduate. A helpful way to remember it is to think of lowering a 'grade' or step, so to degrade something is to make its quality or value lower.