1 [VN] to show or treat sb in a way that makes them seem not worth any respect or not worth taking seriously:
This poster is offensive and degrades women.
2 [V, VN] (technical) to change or make sth change to a simpler chemical form
3 [VN] (technical) to make sth become worse, especially in quality
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for degrade is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is degrade a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, degrade is tagged as verb.
Does degrade appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — degrade appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
