Definition of degrade in English:

degrade

verb 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. 1.1 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
2. 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
1. 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. 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.

Derivatives

degradability

noundɪɡreɪdəˈbɪlɪti

Other studies have demonstrated that maturation frequently limits protein degradation rate and effective protein degradability in a variety of warm- and cool-season grasses.
Example sentencesExamples
- Additional research is warranted examining factors associated with ruminal degradability of barley grain as ruminal degradability is highly variable and has a large impact on animal performance.
- Additional research is certainly warranted examining factors associated with ruminal degradability of barley grain.
- But false claims of biodegradability in the past and a lack of a widely accepted and credible degradability standard have undercut the public's trust.
- In the 1970s, however, scientists revisited the idea of using cellulose by exploiting new technologies to enhance its properties whilst maintaining its degradability.

degradable

adjective dɪˈɡreɪdəb(ə)ldəˈɡreɪdəb(ə)l

This is particularly true of products constructed of rubber, silicone, plastic, or other degradable components, but any product can degrade over time.
Example sentencesExamples
- Because royal jelly's composition is nearly 70 percent water, it's highly degradable, and freeze-drying helps lock in its nutrient value.
- With waste that was non-biodegradable and material that could be recycled collected separately, it was an easy task to convert degradable waste into value-added compost.
- It was the first of the major UK supermarket chains to introduce 100% degradable carrier bags in all stores.
- ‘We have not yet withdrawn from using the degradable bags, but we are looking at a number of alternatives, including paper bags which are not as environmentally-friendly,’ she said.

degradative

adjective dɪˈɡreɪdətɪv

This article reviews current knowledge of starch metabolism in higher plants, and focuses on the control and regulation of the biosynthetic and degradative pathways.
Example sentencesExamples
- Most represent degradative enzyme deficiencies, but some of the genes encode transport, stabilizer, or activator proteins.
- Other characteristics thought to be critical to pathogenesis are adhesiveness to host cells, secretion of degradative enzymes, and interactions with the immune system.
- It is questionable whether aerosol administration of such liposome systems would prove protective against degradative processes in the lung parenchyma.
- These enzymes participate in the degradative process of compounds taken up by lysosomes.

degrader

noun

Therefore, a two-fold dilution was used to estimate the number of degraders in seawater.
Example sentencesExamples
- And for William Morris, it was industrial capitalism, the great degrader of mankind, which had stripped away man's dignity.
- However, oxygen is a powerful degrader of organic compounds.
- The presence of natural degraders does not, by itself, insure biodegradation will be successful.
- An interesting finding of this analysis was that 100% of the ethylbenzene degraders were also capable of degrading toluene.

Origin

Late 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:

degrade

verbdəˈɡreɪddəˈɡrād

[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. 1.1 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
2. 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
1. 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. 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.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French degrader, from ecclesiastical Latin degradare, from de- ‘down, away from’ + Latin gradus ‘step or grade’.

单词	degrade
释义	Definition of degrade in English: degrade verb 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. Derivatives degradability noundɪɡreɪdəˈbɪlɪti Other studies have demonstrated that maturation frequently limits protein degradation rate and effective protein degradability in a variety of warm- and cool-season grasses. Example sentencesExamples Additional research is warranted examining factors associated with ruminal degradability of barley grain as ruminal degradability is highly variable and has a large impact on animal performance. Additional research is certainly warranted examining factors associated with ruminal degradability of barley grain. But false claims of biodegradability in the past and a lack of a widely accepted and credible degradability standard have undercut the public's trust. In the 1970s, however, scientists revisited the idea of using cellulose by exploiting new technologies to enhance its properties whilst maintaining its degradability. degradable adjective dɪˈɡreɪdəb(ə)ldəˈɡreɪdəb(ə)l This is particularly true of products constructed of rubber, silicone, plastic, or other degradable components, but any product can degrade over time. Example sentencesExamples Because royal jelly's composition is nearly 70 percent water, it's highly degradable, and freeze-drying helps lock in its nutrient value. With waste that was non-biodegradable and material that could be recycled collected separately, it was an easy task to convert degradable waste into value-added compost. It was the first of the major UK supermarket chains to introduce 100% degradable carrier bags in all stores. ‘We have not yet withdrawn from using the degradable bags, but we are looking at a number of alternatives, including paper bags which are not as environmentally-friendly,’ she said. degradative adjective dɪˈɡreɪdətɪv This article reviews current knowledge of starch metabolism in higher plants, and focuses on the control and regulation of the biosynthetic and degradative pathways. Example sentencesExamples Most represent degradative enzyme deficiencies, but some of the genes encode transport, stabilizer, or activator proteins. Other characteristics thought to be critical to pathogenesis are adhesiveness to host cells, secretion of degradative enzymes, and interactions with the immune system. It is questionable whether aerosol administration of such liposome systems would prove protective against degradative processes in the lung parenchyma. These enzymes participate in the degradative process of compounds taken up by lysosomes. degrader noun Therefore, a two-fold dilution was used to estimate the number of degraders in seawater. Example sentencesExamples And for William Morris, it was industrial capitalism, the great degrader of mankind, which had stripped away man's dignity. However, oxygen is a powerful degrader of organic compounds. The presence of natural degraders does not, by itself, insure biodegradation will be successful. An interesting finding of this analysis was that 100% of the ethylbenzene degraders were also capable of degrading toluene. Origin Late 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: degrade verbdəˈɡreɪddəˈɡrād [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. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French degrader, from ecclesiastical Latin degradare, from de- ‘down, away from’ + Latin gradus ‘step or grade’.
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