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Что (кто) такое Degrade - определение
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Degredation; Degrade; Degradation (disambiguation); Degrading; Degraded
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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
degrade
v. a.
1.
Disgrace, dishonor, discredit, break, cashier, humiliate, humble, depose, reduce to inferior rank.
2.
Lower, sink, deteriorate, impair, injure, debase, vitiate, pervert, alloy.
Degraded
·Impf & ·p.p. of Degrade.
II. Degraded ·adj Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base.
III. Degraded ·adj Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
IV. Degraded ·adj Having steps;
- said of a cross each of whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center;
- termed also on degrees.
degradation
n. moral; public degradation
degrading
¦ adjective causing a loss of self-respect; humiliating.
degrading
see degrade
degradation
[?d?gr?'de??(?)n]
¦ noun
1. the condition or process of degrading or being degraded.
2. Geology the wearing down of rock by disintegration.
degradation
(degradations)
1.
You use degradation to refer to a situation, condition, or experience which you consider shameful and disgusting, especially one which involves poverty or immorality.
They were sickened by the scenes of misery and degradation they found...
N-VAR [disapproval]
2.
Degradation is the process of something becoming worse or weaker, or being made worse or weaker.
I feel this signals the degradation of American culture.
N-UNCOUNT: with supp
3.
The degradation of land or of the environment is the process of its becoming damaged and poorer, for example because of the effects of pollution, industry, and modern agricultural methods. (TECHNICAL)
N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp
