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Definition of degrade in English: degradeverb dɪˈɡreɪddəˈɡreɪd [with object]1Treat or regard (someone) with contempt or disrespect. 侮辱；轻视 she thought that many supposedly erotic pictures degraded women 她觉得许多据说是色情的画侮辱了女性。 Example sentencesExamples - The squandering of funds and reported misuse of the resources have already degraded the personality of the hero that the movie wants to depict.
- Imperialism, which has always been chummy with and supportive of its fascist kin, will play its historical role in degrading the people, dividing the society, and destroying the nation.
- These are really two entirely different problems: lack of encouragement is not the same as someone degrading you as a person or telling you your project will never work.
- One of the main reasons I believe its illegal is because many people see it as a very wrong thing to do, it degrades women and turns them into objects.
- Usually she refuses to think in terms of male and female, saying, for instance, ‘pornography degrades men just as much as it does women’.
- That is because poverty degrades individuals and robs them of dignity and worth.
- The Peer said: ‘We are degraded by what is being done in our name.’
- You sound like an intelligent woman, however, your use of foul language degrades you and anyone else who uses it.
- Our Dace Hall music culture, which is saluted by the youth, is one that frequently degrades women in its lyrics as well.
- He is just offended by an incongruous adaptation, which, in his opinion, undermines his own concept by degrading his heroine.
- And second, we are killing, we are degrading our heroes, and that is a mistake.
- And both are scared of reality TV - ostensibly because it degrades people, but actually because it shoves real, imperfect people in the faces of hoity-toity reactionary and liberal alike.
- Working for a low minimum wage should not even be considered ‘honest work’ because the experience degrades you.
- We also believe that practically any country that degrades women or any country that cuts them off from the vital life of the country is making a very big mistake.
- Besides the racial slur, it degrades the character of the mother.
- ‘I felt degraded by being sacked,’ he later explained.
- I'm not into computer games, or that teacher, or talking about teachers, or degrading women.
- And our soldiers are degraded and insulted on their own soil.
- They degrade members of our community who provide us with services.
- A criminal might deserve to be tortured; we refuse to torture him nonetheless, because to do so degrades us.
Synonyms demean, debase, cheapen, devalue, prostitute, lower the status of, reduce, shame, humiliate, bring shame to, humble, mortify, abase, disgrace, dishonour desensitize, dehumanize, brutalize humiliated, demeaned, debased, cheapened, cheap, ashamed, abased used - 1.1 Lower the character or quality of.
降低…的品质（或质量），损害 vast areas of natural habitats have been degraded 大面积的自然栖息地已遭到破坏。 Example sentencesExamples - Able to survive extremely degraded water quality, they can live in areas where other fish have been pushed out by pollution.
- A recent article reported that lagoons and sprayfields for animal waste near streams and watercourses may be significantly degrading water quality and endangering human health.
- Usually, the quality of knowledge is degraded.
- The good news is that there is a similar lag when quality is degraded.
- They can degrade air quality far from their sources.
- Decades of harmful land use practices have degraded water quality in much of the species' historic habitat, leaving only a few remnant populations.
- In the future, we'll use well water so as not to degrade the quality of mountain water products.
- While the substance that degrades or lowers the quality of food is an adulterant.
- And if we make it so tough that quality of life is degraded, we're not going to see those recruitments meeting the goal.
- Sprouting, which may appear as a swelling from the shoot at the germ portion of the grain, degrades wheat quality.
- In addition to harming the genetic composition of wild salmon, the conservationist maintains that hatcheries can degrade stream water quality and spread disease.
- And the more you did, the less attention you could give to each, so the quality went down, so the nett result was very, very degraded quality in education.
- What part did public policy actually play in degrading the quality of life in these places below accepted standards of human health and decency?
- Such information is transformed to the brain cells and keeps the nervous centralis highly excited, thus degrading the quality of sleep.
- This causes a discontinuity that degrades the audio quality.
- This is because stores often hook up many TVs to one video source, degrading image quality across all the screens.
- Moreover, the presence of large numbers of tourists degrades the quality of the wilderness experience for everyone.
- Soil and water quality have been seriously degraded.
- Through the innumerable small acts of everyday life, we slowly but steadily degrade the quality of the earth's air, water, soil and diversity of species.
- The all-digital DVI stream avoids any conversion to analog, which can degrade the signal.
Synonyms degenerate, corrupt, corrupted, depraved, perverted, decadent, dissolute, dissipated, debauched, immoral, base, sordid - 1.2archaic Reduce (someone) to a lower rank, especially as a punishment.
〈古〉（尤指作为惩罚）把（某人）降级（或贬职） he was degraded from his high estate 他被从高位上贬级。 Example sentencesExamples - He was degraded from his dukedom in 1399, and was beheaded in January of the following year for conspiring against Henry IV.
- He was degraded from the grandeeship and exiled to the Philippines.
- He was degraded from his orders, and being even in danger of assassination, took refuge with Douglas of Longniddry, and there remained until the end of 1545
- It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority.
2Break down or deteriorate chemically. 降解 the bacteria will degrade hydrocarbons 细菌会降解碳氢化合物。 no object when exposed to light the materials will degrade 暴露在阳光下时这些物质会降解。 Example sentencesExamples - High levels of oxidants cause tissue injury by peroxidizing membrane lipids, degrading proteins, and oxidizing DNA.
- These high concentrations can overload the ability of the soil to adsorb and degrade herbicides.
- Soon, another graduate student there will work with Samac on expressing a new gene so that plants can degrade enough atrazine to be useful in cleaning up contaminated soil and water.
- The wild type molecule at the cell surface cycles from the membrane to sacs within the cell interior called endocytic vesicles where it may be degraded.
- This would mean that the decaying matter was buried (most likely under water) before it could be completely degraded to carbon dioxide and water.
- Even those single molecules must be further degraded by sunlight or slow oxidative breakdown before their constituents can be recycled into the building blocks of life.
- Strong alkaline cleaners can remove or degrade the fluoro-polymers (which are not bonded to the concrete).
- Soy oil polymers must be heated to over 400°C before they degrade, making them more thermally stable than polyethylene or polystyrene.
- It can only be removed using a paint stripper which degrades the polymer.
- They showed that quinotoxine could be degraded to a compound called homomeroquinene, and then they demonstrated the reverse synthesis of homomeroquinene to quinotoxine.
- Think about how plastic and rubber (made from hydrocarbons) degrade under exposure to sunlight.
- Depilatories are put on skin to chemically degrade body hair.
- Again like all proteins in the body, collagen has a finite life span after which it is degraded to the constituent amino acids and replaced by new fibres.
- Over time, however, it oxidizes and chemically degrades to form alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, acids and esters.
- Diamonds, symbols of eternity, are not forever - they will eventually degrade to worthless graphite.
- Because PVC is degraded by light, it requires a minimum of 12 inches of clean soil cover placed over the liner to function as designed.
- Some materials are better degraded under anaerobic conditions than under aerobic conditions.
- This means that telomer alcohols are unlikely to degrade to carboxylic acids in city air.
- If the temperature is too high, the polymer can be degraded.
- Proleases are enzymes that have the capacity to hydrolyze peptide bonds and degrade other proteins.
Synonyms break down, deteriorate, degenerate, decay, atrophy - 2.1Physics Reduce (energy) to a less readily convertible form.
〔物理〕使（能量）衰变 Example sentencesExamples - Energy is always degraded to a less useful form.
- However, if I remember correctly all energy eventually degrades to heat energy, right?
- Heat death will occur when all the energy of the cosmos has been degraded to random heat energy, with random motions of molecules and uniform low-level temperatures.
- All of this energy eventually degrades to heat and has to be either stored in the soil beneath the cities, radiated away, or convected away.
- On an orbiting satellite, energetic particle exposure degrades the efficiency of the solar-cell panels used to provide operating power.
- 2.2Geology Wear down (rock) and cause it to disintegrate.
〔地质〕使（岩石）陵削（或减削） Example sentencesExamples - Under the assumption that landforms unaffected by drainage channels are degraded according to the linear diffusion equation, a procedure is developed to invert a scarp profile to find its ‘diffusion age.’
- We have seen no evidence that this degraded fault-line scarp is Holocene active.
- As such, some peatlands are relict landforms, no longer actively accumulating peat, while other peatlands may even be slowly degrading, some even back to their mineral wetland origins.
- While stabilized and vegetated, the dune fields are often degraded, since in some cases it has been many thousands of years since they were last active.
- Three other profiles, measured across the portion of the scarp degraded by a landslide, also share distinctive features.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French degrader, from ecclesiastical Latin degradare, from de- 'down, away from' + Latin gradus 'step or grade'. grade from early 16th century: A grade is literally a step from Latin gradus ‘step’, and was originally used in English as a unit of measurement, a use largely replaced by degree, from the same source. The word is also found in graduate (Late Middle English) ‘take a degree’, gradient (mid 19th century), gradual (Late Middle English) ‘done by degrees’, and degrade (Late Middle English). The expression to make the grade is an American expression from the early 20th century.
Definition of degrade in US English: degradeverbdəˈɡreɪddəˈɡrād [with object]1Treat or regard (someone) with contempt or disrespect. 侮辱；轻视 she thought that many supposedly erotic pictures degraded women 她觉得许多据说是色情的画侮辱了女性。 Example sentencesExamples - One of the main reasons I believe its illegal is because many people see it as a very wrong thing to do, it degrades women and turns them into objects.
- And our soldiers are degraded and insulted on their own soil.
- They degrade members of our community who provide us with services.
- Besides the racial slur, it degrades the character of the mother.
- He is just offended by an incongruous adaptation, which, in his opinion, undermines his own concept by degrading his heroine.
- The Peer said: ‘We are degraded by what is being done in our name.’
- The squandering of funds and reported misuse of the resources have already degraded the personality of the hero that the movie wants to depict.
- A criminal might deserve to be tortured; we refuse to torture him nonetheless, because to do so degrades us.
- Our Dace Hall music culture, which is saluted by the youth, is one that frequently degrades women in its lyrics as well.
- These are really two entirely different problems: lack of encouragement is not the same as someone degrading you as a person or telling you your project will never work.
- You sound like an intelligent woman, however, your use of foul language degrades you and anyone else who uses it.
- We also believe that practically any country that degrades women or any country that cuts them off from the vital life of the country is making a very big mistake.
- Working for a low minimum wage should not even be considered ‘honest work’ because the experience degrades you.
- And second, we are killing, we are degrading our heroes, and that is a mistake.
- Usually she refuses to think in terms of male and female, saying, for instance, ‘pornography degrades men just as much as it does women’.
- That is because poverty degrades individuals and robs them of dignity and worth.
- ‘I felt degraded by being sacked,’ he later explained.
- And both are scared of reality TV - ostensibly because it degrades people, but actually because it shoves real, imperfect people in the faces of hoity-toity reactionary and liberal alike.
- Imperialism, which has always been chummy with and supportive of its fascist kin, will play its historical role in degrading the people, dividing the society, and destroying the nation.
- I'm not into computer games, or that teacher, or talking about teachers, or degrading women.
Synonyms humiliated, demeaned, debased, cheapened, cheap, ashamed, abased demean, debase, cheapen, devalue, prostitute, lower the status of, reduce, shame, humiliate, bring shame to, humble, mortify, abase, disgrace, dishonour - 1.1 Lower the character or quality of.
降低…的品质（或质量），损害 repeaters clean up and amplify the degraded signal Example sentencesExamples - They can degrade air quality far from their sources.
- Usually, the quality of knowledge is degraded.
- The good news is that there is a similar lag when quality is degraded.
- Able to survive extremely degraded water quality, they can live in areas where other fish have been pushed out by pollution.
- Moreover, the presence of large numbers of tourists degrades the quality of the wilderness experience for everyone.
- Such information is transformed to the brain cells and keeps the nervous centralis highly excited, thus degrading the quality of sleep.
- Sprouting, which may appear as a swelling from the shoot at the germ portion of the grain, degrades wheat quality.
- And if we make it so tough that quality of life is degraded, we're not going to see those recruitments meeting the goal.
- Decades of harmful land use practices have degraded water quality in much of the species' historic habitat, leaving only a few remnant populations.
- In addition to harming the genetic composition of wild salmon, the conservationist maintains that hatcheries can degrade stream water quality and spread disease.
- And the more you did, the less attention you could give to each, so the quality went down, so the nett result was very, very degraded quality in education.
- This causes a discontinuity that degrades the audio quality.
- A recent article reported that lagoons and sprayfields for animal waste near streams and watercourses may be significantly degrading water quality and endangering human health.
- In the future, we'll use well water so as not to degrade the quality of mountain water products.
- Through the innumerable small acts of everyday life, we slowly but steadily degrade the quality of the earth's air, water, soil and diversity of species.
- While the substance that degrades or lowers the quality of food is an adulterant.
- What part did public policy actually play in degrading the quality of life in these places below accepted standards of human health and decency?
- The all-digital DVI stream avoids any conversion to analog, which can degrade the signal.
- Soil and water quality have been seriously degraded.
- This is because stores often hook up many TVs to one video source, degrading image quality across all the screens.
Synonyms degenerate, corrupt, corrupted, depraved, perverted, decadent, dissolute, dissipated, debauched, immoral, base, sordid - 1.2archaic Reduce (someone) to a lower rank, especially as a punishment.
〈古〉（尤指作为惩罚）把（某人）降级（或贬职） he was degraded from his high estate 他被从高位上贬级。 Example sentencesExamples - He was degraded from the grandeeship and exiled to the Philippines.
- He was degraded from his orders, and being even in danger of assassination, took refuge with Douglas of Longniddry, and there remained until the end of 1545
- He was degraded from his dukedom in 1399, and was beheaded in January of the following year for conspiring against Henry IV.
- It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority.
2Break down or deteriorate chemically. 降解 the bacteria will degrade hydrocarbons 细菌会降解碳氢化合物。 no object when exposed to light the materials will degrade 暴露在阳光下时这些物质会降解。 Example sentencesExamples - High levels of oxidants cause tissue injury by peroxidizing membrane lipids, degrading proteins, and oxidizing DNA.
- It can only be removed using a paint stripper which degrades the polymer.
- Some materials are better degraded under anaerobic conditions than under aerobic conditions.
- They showed that quinotoxine could be degraded to a compound called homomeroquinene, and then they demonstrated the reverse synthesis of homomeroquinene to quinotoxine.
- This would mean that the decaying matter was buried (most likely under water) before it could be completely degraded to carbon dioxide and water.
- These high concentrations can overload the ability of the soil to adsorb and degrade herbicides.
- Again like all proteins in the body, collagen has a finite life span after which it is degraded to the constituent amino acids and replaced by new fibres.
- Proleases are enzymes that have the capacity to hydrolyze peptide bonds and degrade other proteins.
- If the temperature is too high, the polymer can be degraded.
- Soy oil polymers must be heated to over 400°C before they degrade, making them more thermally stable than polyethylene or polystyrene.
- Soon, another graduate student there will work with Samac on expressing a new gene so that plants can degrade enough atrazine to be useful in cleaning up contaminated soil and water.
- This means that telomer alcohols are unlikely to degrade to carboxylic acids in city air.
- Because PVC is degraded by light, it requires a minimum of 12 inches of clean soil cover placed over the liner to function as designed.
- Over time, however, it oxidizes and chemically degrades to form alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, acids and esters.
- Even those single molecules must be further degraded by sunlight or slow oxidative breakdown before their constituents can be recycled into the building blocks of life.
- Strong alkaline cleaners can remove or degrade the fluoro-polymers (which are not bonded to the concrete).
- The wild type molecule at the cell surface cycles from the membrane to sacs within the cell interior called endocytic vesicles where it may be degraded.
- Diamonds, symbols of eternity, are not forever - they will eventually degrade to worthless graphite.
- Depilatories are put on skin to chemically degrade body hair.
- Think about how plastic and rubber (made from hydrocarbons) degrade under exposure to sunlight.
Synonyms break down, deteriorate, degenerate, decay, atrophy - 2.1Physics Reduce (energy) to a less readily convertible form.
〔物理〕使（能量）衰变 Example sentencesExamples - Heat death will occur when all the energy of the cosmos has been degraded to random heat energy, with random motions of molecules and uniform low-level temperatures.
- However, if I remember correctly all energy eventually degrades to heat energy, right?
- Energy is always degraded to a less useful form.
- All of this energy eventually degrades to heat and has to be either stored in the soil beneath the cities, radiated away, or convected away.
- On an orbiting satellite, energetic particle exposure degrades the efficiency of the solar-cell panels used to provide operating power.
- 2.2Geology Wear down (rock) and cause it to disintegrate.
〔地质〕使（岩石）陵削（或减削） Example sentencesExamples - Under the assumption that landforms unaffected by drainage channels are degraded according to the linear diffusion equation, a procedure is developed to invert a scarp profile to find its ‘diffusion age.’
- As such, some peatlands are relict landforms, no longer actively accumulating peat, while other peatlands may even be slowly degrading, some even back to their mineral wetland origins.
- While stabilized and vegetated, the dune fields are often degraded, since in some cases it has been many thousands of years since they were last active.
- We have seen no evidence that this degraded fault-line scarp is Holocene active.
- Three other profiles, measured across the portion of the scarp degraded by a landslide, also share distinctive features.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French degrader, from ecclesiastical Latin degradare, from de- ‘down, away from’ + Latin gradus ‘step or grade’. |