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Degraded   /dɪgrˈeɪdəd/  /dɪgrˈeɪdɪd/   Listen
verb
Degrade  v. t.  (past & past part. degraded; pres. part. degrading)  
1.
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. "Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar."
2.
To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man. "O miserable mankind, to what fall Degraded, to what wretched state reserved!" "Yet time ennobles or degrades each line." "Her pride... struggled hard against this degrading passion."
3.
(Geol.) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
Synonyms: To abase; demean; lower; reduce. See Abase.


Degrade  v. i.  (Biol.) 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.


adjective
Degraded  adj.  
1.
Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base. "The Netherlands... were reduced practically to a very degraded condition."
2.
(Biol.) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts. "Some families of plants are degraded dicotyledons."
3.
(Her.) Having steps; said of a cross each of whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center; termed also on degrees.





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"Degraded" Quotes from Famous Books



... cruelty is not only in your heart and thoughts, but it is there in face. It has put its lines there. I have watched them come and grow. Your money, and the life it compels you to lead have done all this. You are being brutalized and degraded. And this process can only go on and on until ...
— Burning Daylight • Jack London
... but the soul of national poetry will be gone. That muse will "never bow the knee in mammon's fane." No, the patriots of such a land must hide their shame in her deepest forests, and her bards must hang their harps upon the willows. Such a people, thus corrupted and degraded, ...
— Literary Hearthstones of Dixie • La Salle Corbell Pickett
... and engaged Attorney Morrice to undertake his defence, but his arguments proved ineffectual. Mr. Cawdray, refusing to submit, was brought before Archbishop Whitgift, and other high commissioners, May 14, 1590, and was degraded and deposed from the ministry and made a mere layman. The above account is abridged from Brook's Lives of the Puritans, London, ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 • Various
... exert his strength chiefly in those details which made demands on his profound knowledge of the human form and his enthusiasm for the nude. The men and women of the Resurrection, the sublime angels of Heaven and of the Judgment, the discoloured and degraded fiends of Hell, the magnificently foreshortened clothed figures of the Fulminati, the portraits in the preaching of Antichrist, reveal Luca's specific quality as a painter, at once impressively imaginative and crudely realistic. There is something in his way of ...
— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds
... left to the care of her uncle and aunt, who had received her grudgingly. They were her sole relatives; and the shame of their degraded lives was plain through the outlines of the vague picture which Mary sketched ...
— The Christmas Angel • Abbie Farwell Brown


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