DEGRADE

v. 1 downgrade, demote, break, Military cashier, Ecclesiastical unfrock, Law disbar; depose, unseat; disfranchise or disenfranchise; Military drum out (of the corps), Chiefly naval disrate; US military bust They degraded him from captain to lieutenant 2 disgrace, dishonour, humble, shame, discredit, debase, demean, abase; humiliate, mortify, belittle, deprecate, depreciate, cheapen, reduce, lower He has been degraded to mopping the floor 3 dilute, adulterate, weaken, thin, water (down), alloy Cologne is, essentially, degraded perfume