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Meanings of degrade in inglês

português
rebaixar
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degradar

To make a person morally inferior.

rebaixar
português
barganhar
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abaratir

To lower the grade or worth of something.

barganhar
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Examples for "cheapen"
Examples for "cheapen"
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At least I don't cheapen myself like other members of this family.
Another life altogether: a novel
2
Trust someone crass like you or your father to cheapen a beautiful-
The Great Book of Amber
3
He clung tenaciously to the fifty-cent basis-togo lower would cheapen him.
The Fortune Hunter
4
To quote or to individualize would be to cheapen this vast offering.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910
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She evidently had no desire to cheapen that which she would deny.
The Sowers
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degradar
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degradar

Reduce the level of land, as by erosion.

degradar
Usage of degrade in inglês
1
However, the PBG fibers investigated tended to degrade too quickly for application.
Pubmed
2
But as time marches on, our bodies begin to age and degrade.
BBC
3
The attack does not significantly degrade the military capabilities of Bashar al-Assad.
The Guardian
4
Haven't they used his pleasant vices as an instrument to degrade him?
Brave New World
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And please let's not let this degrade into an OS superiority contest.
Wired
6
They would degrade him and they would slay him into the bargain.
The Chessmen of Mars
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Thus both religion and education have conspired to degrade the family state.
American Woman's Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science; / Bei...
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And I noticed that when resources degrade, there is less of them.
Feminist dot com
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Nothing has precedence of it, and nothing can warp or degrade it.
Poems by Walt Whitman
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In trying to shock him, she'd only managed to degrade herself further.
Ruthless
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It will embitter and degrade our politics, and dislocate our Parliamentary institutions.
The Framework of Home Rule
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Caste, in society, may degrade, but, at the same time, it elevates.
The Memories of Fifty Years / Containing Brief Biographical Noti...
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Your noblesse did not deserve punishment: but to degrade is to punish.
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
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Even their utter bathos cannot degrade a group of buildings so wonderful.
The Charm of Oxford
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Nowadays, small-molecule PROTACs are gaining popularity as tools to degrade pathogenic protein.
Pubmed
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Our punishments are of such a character that they do not degrade.
The Twin Hells / A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and...
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Translations for degrade
espanhol
degradar
Degrade through the time
Degrade across language varieties
United Kingdom
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