Word Meanings - DEGRADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down. Syn. -- To abase; demean; lower; reduce. See Abase. (more info) 1. To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank' to deprive of office or dignity; to

Additional info about word: DEGRADE

To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down. Syn. -- To abase; demean; lower; reduce. See Abase. (more info) 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. Palfrey. 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! Milton. He pride . . . struggled hard against this degrading passion. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEGRADE)

• Abase
• Degrade
• disgrace
• bring low
• reduce
• humble
• demean
• stoop
• humiliate
• depress
• lower
• sink
• dishonor
• Debase
• deprave
• deteriorate
• corrupt
• alloy
• impair
• Sink
• Fall
• descend
• drop
• subside
• penetrate
• soak
• droop
• decline
• weary
• flag
• decay
• decrease
• diminish
• abate
• immerse
• submerge
• degrade
• drown
• attenuate
• suppress
• Vilify
• spoil
• mar
• defame
• traduce
• asperse
• stigmatize
• slander
• upbraid
• abuse
• decry
• cheapen

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEGRADE)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better
• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge
• Increase
• amplify
• augment
• extend
• Hoist
• raise
• heighten
• exalt
• aggrandize
• elevate

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  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• BRAZIL NUT
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• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• BROID
  To braid. Chaucer.
• BROIDERER
  One who embroiders.
• BRUISEWORT
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• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• TRADUCENT
  Slanderous. Entick.
• DEFAMER
  One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
• BRAWNER
  A boor killed for the table.
• BRACHIOGANOID
  One of the Brachioganoidei.
• DROOPER
  One who, or that which, droops.
• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• BRITANNIC
  Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.
• BREATHE
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  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• WILLOWER
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• UNDERBRED
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• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• OPPROBRIOUS
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• CREBRICOSTATE
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• BRASIER; BRAZIER
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