Word Meaning

Meaning of "degraded" and the crossword clue

- Break down chemically
- Demote
- Lower in rank
- Put down below C grade, we hear
- Reduce in rank
- Reduce in worth
- Reduce worth to below C-grade
- Reduce worth to below C-grade?
- To lowerin rank, degree, etc.
- Treat with contempt
- Debased
- Debased, cheapened
- Demoted
- Deteriorated
- Dishonoured
- Grad is indeed humiliated
- Humiliated
- Humiliated by report being graded worse than C
- To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer.
- To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man.
- To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
- To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera.
- of Degrade
- Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base.
- Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
- Having steps; -- said of a cross each of whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center; -- termed also on degrees.