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.

Other Word Forms

• degradedly adverb
• degradedness noun
• undegraded adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of degraded¹

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

Example Sentences

This facilitates a process called autophagy, which occurs routinely in our cells: Damaged or unnecessary proteins are wrapped up in small membrane vesicles and safely degraded with enzymes - a natural recycling process, in effect.

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On top of a degraded infrastructure, it would have to contend with a shrunken military and new threats such as drones.

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Amazon recently sued Perplexity to prevent it from allowing its agent to make Amazon purchases for users, alleging that its AI agent had “degraded Amazon customers’ experience” and presented a cybersecurity risk to client data.

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Amazon recently sued Perplexity to prevent it from allowing its agent to make Amazon purchases for users, alleging that its AI agent had “degraded Amazon customers’ experience” and presented a cybersecurity risk to client data.

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Haldane acknowledged this "pantomime" had also happened under previous governments, adding that the "budgetary process has been degraded over many years".

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