to degrade
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5.1
- verb
- /dɪˈɡreɪd/
:
humillar
- To care means that we do not invalidate, do not degrade someone, do not minimize someone.
- demeaned and degraded
- humiliates and degrades
- degraded status
And but I went home and I couldn't believe I was degraded, dehumanized.
- And but I went home and I couldn't believe I was degraded, dehumanized.
- You were mocked, you were degraded, you were humiliated, you were called selfish.
- To care means that we do not invalidate, do not degrade someone, do not minimize someone.
- And it was an experience that left me feeling humiliated and degraded as a person.
- Well, it's, it's, it's kind of done, you know, to humiliate you and, and to, you know, degrade, degrade you.
- But I can only tell you from a man's point of view and as a man, like you kind of feel degraded.
- This is why you'll have some men who will flat out insult their woman, call her all kinds of names, degrade her.
- Finally, finally we can just use this and degrade her and docked her from the world.
- He says tis the cause makes all that Hallows or degrades courage in its fall.
- When we move through the world, you are confronting defiled and degraded minds and it's never going to be any different than that.
Examples
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But now it would degrade me to marry Heathcliff.
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Under these conditions, the middle class was unavoidably degraded to the manufacturing class.
Academic text (1996) -
When you degrade her, you degrade all life, human life.
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It's, it's, it's almost sad to see someone of such stature degrade himself to this degree.
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Even an acute loss of sleep can degrade waking performance and alertness.
Academic text (1997) -
Cultural activities that might degrade the country's dignity, however, will be banned.
Academic text (1999) -
The poor, falling short of some and perhaps all of these, were degraded spiritually as well as economically.
Academic text (1997) -
The current study measured the perception of degraded English speech in listeners with different language backgrounds.
Academic text (2012) -
Her image is that of an insensitive person, degraded and impure, without dignity or value.
Academic text (1999) -
It's unacceptable to degrade anyone's character with false accusations and insults.
Synonyms
414
6.1
Make someone feel very ashamed and foolish, often in front of others
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5.1
To say cruel things to make people think less of someone
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3.5
To show a lack of respect for someone
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4.7
Make a person or thing seem less important
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4.5
To make someone lose respect or honor by doing something shameful
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4.9
To make someone feel unimportant by saying bad things about them
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6.8
To make someone feel less respected or important
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4.9
To make something lower in rank, value or importance
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8.6
To make something dirty or harm its reputation
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7.7
To speak badly about someone or something to show little respect
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7.5
To treat a person as if they are not human and take away their dignity
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7.5
Treat someone as shameful and not worthy of respect
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5.0
To make something seem less important or respected
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6.9
To make something worth less by adding cheaper material
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6.5
Make a person or thing seem less important and less valuable
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8.4
Say or do things that make someone seem less respected
Say someone's work or ideas are not important and make them feel small
To take away someone's honors or titles
To lower a person's rank, status, or moral character
Phrasal Verbs
How Humiliating
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Degrade comes from the parts de- 'down' and gradus 'step'. It is like making someone's or something's position take a step down, so to degrade a person is to lower their respect or dignity.