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Cosa (chi) è Degrade - definizione
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Degredation; Degrade; Degradation (disambiguation); Degrading; Degraded
Degrade
·vt To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
II. Degrade ·vt To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer.
III. Degrade ·vi To Degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera.
degrade
¦ verb
1. cause to suffer a severe loss of dignity or respect; demean.
lower the character or quality of.
archaic reduce to a lower rank, especially as a punishment.
2. cause to break down or deteriorate chemically.
Physics reduce (energy) to a less readily convertible form.
Derivatives
degradability noun
degradable adjective
degradative adjective
degrader noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. degrader, from eccles. L. degradare, from de- 'down' + L. gradus 'grade'.
degrade
(degrades, degrading, degraded)
1.
Something that degrades someone causes people to have less respect for them.
...the notion that pornography degrades women...
When I asked him if he had ever been to a prostitute he said he wouldn't degrade himself like that.
VERB: V n, V pron-refl
• degrading
Mr Porter was subjected to a degrading strip-search.
= humiliating
ADJ
2.
To degrade something means to cause it to get worse. (FORMAL)
...the ability to meet human needs indefinitely without degrading the environment.
VERB: V n
3.
In science, if a substance degrades or if something degrades it, it changes chemically and decays or separates into different substances. (TECHNICAL)
This substance degrades rapidly in the soil.
...the ability of these enzymes to degrade cellulose.
= break down
VERB: V, V n
Esempi dal corpus di testo per Degrade
1. "Illegal migrants really degrade the environment.
2. Research shows that ultraviolet can degrade some pharmaceuticals.
3. Shall we use phrases which degrade, insult, and hurt people?
4. Space weather disturbances in the ionosphere seriously degrade GPS accuracy.
5. Initial estimates were that the satellite would take years to degrade and re–enter the atmosphere.