transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪgreɪd ]
( 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
• de‧grad‧ing
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