degradation
Origin of degradation
1Other words for degradation
Other words from degradation
- deg·ra·da·tion·al, adjective
- deg·ra·da·tive, adjective
- an·ti·deg·ra·da·tion, adjective
- non·deg·ra·da·tion, noun
- self-deg·ra·da·tion, noun
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How to use degradation in a sentence
Meanwhile those excluded from the environmental movement are often the same people who face the greatest threats from climate change and have the most to lose from environmental degradation.
How Environmentalism Can Center Racial Justice in 2021 | Heather Hansman | January 29, 2021 | Outside OnlineHurricanes and floods, droughts and fires, environmental degradation, increased poverty and fierce global resource competition are just some of the likely potential harms.
Defeating today’s top threats requires rethinking our idea of national security | Melvyn Leffler | January 26, 2021 | Washington PostThese contributions will help offset some of the degradation of insect habitat.
We Crush, Poison, and Destroy Insects at Our Own Peril - Issue 95: Escape | John Hainze | January 20, 2021 | NautilusThey don’t want to show human brutishness and degradation in their museums.
Philip Guston’s art speaks to our present moment. We shouldn’t have to wait to see it. | Sebastian Smee | January 14, 2021 | Washington PostHowever, despite this support, over the course of 2020 I experienced a material degradation of my overall mental health, which resulted in a period of hospitalization in August.
I’m stepping down as CEO due to my mental health—and I want to talk about it | Matthew Cooper | December 18, 2020 | Quartz
There are always examples of degradation, but there are very few examples of ecosystems left that are that pristine.
Republicans: Obama’s Ocean Protection Plan Evidence of ‘Imperial Presidency’ | Abigail Golden | June 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDigestion is a technical term which relates the mechanical, enzymatic, and chemical degradation of food.
Quora Q: Does Drinking Water During Meals Help or Hinder the Digestive System? | Quora Contributor | January 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“Since this past November, you have seen the slow and steady drumbeat of degradation,” Steele says.
The New, Not Necessarily Improved, Chris Christie | Lloyd Grove | December 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd this of course raises the specter of Republican lies that make their own contribution to the degradation of public discourse.
So it is with Just Send Me Word, a heroic love story amid the squalor and degradation of the Gulag.
‘Just Send Me Word’ by Orlando Figes: Life and Love in the Gulag | Owen Matthews | June 10, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt all charmed him inexpressibly, so that he realised—yes, in a sense—the degradation of his twenty years' absorption in business.
Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon BlackwoodBut Weirmarsh, with his innate cunning, presented to him a picture of exposure and degradation which held him horrified.
The Doctor of Pimlico | William Le QueuxCome to our aid then; the morning of our Redemption from degradation, adorns the horizon.
Raise the mothers above the level of degradation, and the offspring is elevated with them.
He watches the budding of evil instincts, the ignoble habits idly acquired in degradation.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile Gautier
British Dictionary definitions for degradation
/ (ˌdɛɡrəˈdeɪʃən) /
the act of degrading or the state of being degraded
a state of degeneration, squalor, or poverty
some act, constraint, etc, that is degrading
the wearing down of the surface of rocks, cliffs, etc, by erosion, weathering, or some other process
chem a breakdown of a molecule into atoms or smaller molecules
physics an irreversible process in which the energy available to do work is decreased
RC Church the permanent unfrocking of a priest
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