"degrade" meaning in English

See degrade in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /dɪˈɡɹeɪd/ [UK], /dɪˈɡɹeɪd/ [Canada, US], /diˈɡɹeɪd/ [Canada, US], /dɪˈɡɹæɪd/ [General-Australian] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-degrade.wav Forms: degrades [present, singular, third-person], degrading [participle, present], degraded [participle, past], degraded [past]
Rhymes: -eɪd Etymology: From Middle French dégrader. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|frm|dégrader}} Middle French dégrader Head templates: {{en-verb}} degrade (third-person singular simple present degrades, present participle degrading, simple past and past participle degraded)
  1. (transitive) To lower in value or social position. Tags: transitive Translations (to lower in value or social position): понижавам (ponižavam) (Bulgarian), разжалвам (razžalvam) (Bulgarian), degradar (Catalan), degradovat (Czech), alentaa (Finnish), degradieren (German), herabstufen (German), herunterstufen (German), herabsetzen (German), lealacsonyít (Hungarian), degradál (Hungarian), ísligh (Irish), degradare (Italian), enkorkovarse (english: oneself) (Ladino), obterō (Latin), whakapāpaku (Maori), degradar (Portuguese), भ्रंशते (bhraṃśate) (Sanskrit), degradar (Spanish), degradera (Swedish), nedvärdera (Swedish), diraddio (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-degrade-en-verb-pCIkctel Disambiguation of 'to lower in value or social position': 93 4 3
  2. (intransitive, ergative) To reduce in quality or purity. Tags: ergative, intransitive Translations (to reduce in quality or purity): تَرَدَّى (taraddā) (Arabic), упадам (upadam) (Bulgarian), деградирам (degradiram) (Bulgarian), разлагам се (razlagam se) (Bulgarian), degradar (Catalan), znehodnotit (Czech), degraderen (Dutch), aftakelen (Dutch), vervallen (Dutch), heikentää (Finnish), alentaa (Finnish), vermindern (German), abbauen (German), lealacsonyodik (Hungarian), degradálódik (Hungarian), bomlik (Hungarian), elbomlik (Hungarian), lebomlik (Hungarian), degradarsi (Italian), degradar (Portuguese), degradar (Spanish), diraddio (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-degrade-en-verb-dorsme4X Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Ladino translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Sanskrit translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 43 51 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 6 61 33 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 11 52 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 7 57 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 7 59 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 7 59 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 7 59 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 12 53 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 7 59 34 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 7 60 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 4 60 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 7 59 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 8 57 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Ladino translations: 8 57 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 8 57 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 7 59 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 7 59 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Sanskrit translations: 7 60 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 9 56 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 7 59 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 12 53 35 Disambiguation of 'to reduce in quality or purity': 2 87 11
  3. (transitive, geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Geology Translations (to reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down): erodieren (German), erodálódik (Hungarian), elkopik (Hungarian), erodir (Portuguese), desgastar (Portuguese), erosionar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-degrade-en-verb-REJuaiqw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 43 51 Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'to reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down': 1 12 87
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: debse, demean

Inflected forms

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        "(transitive) To lower in value or social position."
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        "(intransitive, ergative) To reduce in quality or purity."
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          "roman": "razlagam se",
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          "word": "aftakelen"
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    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Ladino translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Sanskrit translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
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      "word": "degrade gracefully"
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          "ref": "1858, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter XIV, in History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty. […], volume I, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, book I, pages 563–564:",
          "text": "[…] [William] Prynne was sentenced by the Star-Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar, to stand in pillory at two places in London and lose an ear at each, to be branded on the forehead, to pay a fine of five thousand pounds, and to be imprisoned for life.",
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        "To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down."
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        "(transitive, geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down."
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      "ipa": "/dɪˈɡɹeɪd/",
      "tags": [
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      "ipa": "/dɪˈɡɹeɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/diˈɡɹeɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
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      "rhymes": "-eɪd"
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      "word": "debse"
    },
    {
      "word": "demean"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ponižavam",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "понижавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "razžalvam",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "разжалвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "degradar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "degradovat"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "alentaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "degradieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "herabstufen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "herunterstufen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "herabsetzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "lealacsonyít"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "degradál"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "ísligh"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "degradare"
    },
    {
      "code": "lad",
      "english": "oneself",
      "lang": "Ladino",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "enkorkovarse"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "obterō"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "whakapāpaku"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "degradar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "bhraṃśate",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "भ्रंशते"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "degradar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "degradera"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "nedvärdera"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to lower in value or social position",
      "word": "diraddio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "taraddā",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "تَرَدَّى"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "upadam",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "упадам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "degradiram",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "деградирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "razlagam se",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "разлагам се"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "degradar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "znehodnotit"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "degraderen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "aftakelen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "vervallen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "heikentää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "alentaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "vermindern"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "abbauen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "lealacsonyodik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "degradálódik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "bomlik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "elbomlik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "lebomlik"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "degradarsi"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "degradar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "degradar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to reduce in quality or purity",
      "word": "diraddio"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down",
      "word": "erodieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down",
      "word": "erodálódik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down",
      "word": "elkopik"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down",
      "word": "erodir"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down",
      "word": "desgastar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down",
      "word": "erosionar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "degrade"
}

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