American English pronunciation
How to pronounce degraded
IPA transcription: [dɪɡ'ɹeɪdəd]
Pronunciation variants: [dɪɡ'ɹeɪdəd][dɪɡ'ɹeɪdɪd]
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Verb
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reduce the level of land, as by erosion
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reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
“She tends to put down younger women colleagues”
“His critics took him down after the lecture”
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lower the grade of something; reduce its worth
Adjective
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unrestrained by convention or morality
“Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society”
“deplorably dissipated and degraded”
“riotous living”
“fast women”
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lowered in value
“the dollar is low”
“a debased currency”
Usage examples
- The quay, owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, has become degraded and damaged.
- Most insulin molecules are degraded by liver cells.
- The main body of the galaxy is extremely degraded.
- Additionally, accuracy can be significantly degraded by jitter on the signal being measured.
- Medium-chain fatty acids are also produced when larger fatty acids are degraded.
- Cellulose and hemicellulose is degraded to aliphatic carboxylic acid soaps and hemicellulose fragments.
- Restoring highly degraded resources depends on integration of functional mechanisms of ecosystems.
- Desmopressin is degraded more slowly than recombinant vasopressin, and requires less frequent administration.
- Grazing of livestock has also degraded grasslands and exposed soils to runoff.