treating sb as if they have no value, so that they lose their SELF-RESPECT and the respect of other people:
the inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners * Many people agree that pornography is degrading to women.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for degrading is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is degrading a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, degrading is tagged as adjective.
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