DEGRADE


Meaning of DEGRADE in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

woman

It's humiliating, degrading , having different women seeing you.

May responded that this exclusion did not constitute discrimination, nor did it degrade the status of women in the Church.

Pornographic material which is degrading to women , children and the men who look at it.

He was far too much of a gentleman to degrade any woman .

Rape, although unspeakably degrading for a woman , in no way degrades its victims morally.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Black plastic starts to degrade upon exposure to sunlight.

Erosion is degrading the land.

Winters says he never intended to degrade women in his movies.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Adam Smith thought that specialization had the potential to degrade workers, too.

An area several times as large is suffering a decline in productivity as it is degraded by overuse.

Don't leave your tent pitched all day for a prolonged period - this will degrade the flysheet.

If sulphur hexafluoride is subjected to electrical sparking in the presence of oxygen, it degrades, releasing toxic breakdown products.

It honed in on the prototypical shape that was behind all the degraded images.

They can all help us in understanding conduct which seems to degrade humanity.

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