degrade

[US]/dɪˈɡreɪd/
[UK]/dɪˈɡreɪd/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. cause to lose dignity; reduce in rank or status; break down
vi. decline; reduce in rank or status

Example Sentences

This herbicide degrades in moist soil.

Don't degrade yourself by answering him.

a scandal that degraded the participants.

a supervisor degraded to an assistant;

A dishonest action like that will degrade you.

he was degraded from his high estate.

to degrade oneself by cheating and telling lies

she thought that many supposedly erotic pictures degraded women.

Both myxoviruses and lysosomes are equipped with enzymes which can degrade glycoproteins.

They are rate-limiting enzymes that degrade heme into same moles of dehydrobilirubin(biliverdin),CO and Fe.

Titin in myofibril or in purified state can be degraded by a myofibril-bound serine proteinase (MBSP) at the optimum temperature of 55℃.

The whole wheatmeal is degraded by the fermentation method and dextrinized by the chemical method,then it begins cross linking through using particular dryer.

Accordingly, we raised the 3rd level kind, for example 2 class kind natural meadowy differentiate in the 3rd class for natural meadowy and degrade natural meadowy two group.

Heat treatment and pre-strain, tensile test of the material and four point bending test have been carried to obtain the mechanical property of the undegraded and degraded material at low temperature.

On the basis of mechanism analysis and compare of CODCr degradation rate, parachlorophenol and aniline were found to be easier degraded by ferrate than nitrobenzene.

Real-world Examples

Nuclear facilities fail as their fabric degrades.

Source: BBC Ideas Selection (Bilingual)

The challenge was that DNA degrades fast in tropical environments.

Source: Science 60 Seconds - Scientific American July 2023 Collection

After more than 100 years on the seabed, the Titanic has gradually degraded.

Source: BBC Reading Selection

Thai said she had been frustrated that the batteries for her wireless devices degrade.

Source: VOA Special May 2016 Collection

Bertocchini said her team is still trying to understand how the worms degrade the plastic.

Source: VOA Slow English Technology

But the Justice Department says the deals can actually degrade the search experience for people.

Source: This month's NPR news

We’re leading the coalition to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL.

Source: Obama's weekly television address.

Additionally, lead poisoning can also denature ribonuclease which is an enzyme that degrades ribosomes.

Source: Osmosis - Blood Cancer

We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty.

Source: PBS English News

And this mitochondrial DNA is specifically inherited from your mom because your dad's degraded immediately after fertilization.

Source: Asap SCIENCE Selection

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