26984 words

degradation

3 definitions • 3 examples
1
the process in which the beauty or quality of something is destroyed or spoiled:

Examples:

environmental degradation
2
the situation in which people are made to feel they have no value:

Examples:

the misery and degradation of prison life
3
the process by which something is made worse, esp. the quality of land:

Examples:

One of the effects of environmental degradation is the absence of fish in that river.

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