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degraded

[dih-grey-did]

adjective

  1. reduced in rank, position, reputation, etc..

    He felt degraded by the trivial tasks assigned to him.

  2. reduced in quality or value; debased; vulgarized.

    the degraded level of the modern novel.



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Other Word Forms

  • degradedly adverb
  • degradedness noun
  • undegraded adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of degraded1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English; degrade, -ed 2
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Example Sentences

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Significant portions of Hamas’s tunnel networks have been destroyed, its leadership has been decimated, and its ability to launch attacks has been severely degraded.

This relaxation, the researchers discovered, makes the old DNA strands less stable, so they get degraded, making it easier for the new strands to be incorporated without introducing any errors.

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They too speak to the difficulty of rendering language in solid form, and we see flaws in each piece where the molds have degraded after repeated use.

When I reviewed the boxes for The Times in 2000, I found that both had flaws, including a degraded video image even at the highest resolution settings.

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Unlike clear-cut areas, these degraded forests often fall through the cracks of national accounting systems and international policy frameworks.

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