degraded

5 definitions • 3 examples

past simple and past participle of

to cause people to feel that they or other people have no value and do not have the respect or good opinion of others:

Pornography degrades women.

to spoil or destroy the beauty or quality of something:

Every day the environment is further degraded by toxic wastes.

If the quality of something electrical or electronic degrades or is degraded, it becomes less good or less correct.

(of a substance) to change into a more simple chemical structure:

degrade into These chemicals quickly degrade into harmless compounds.