Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to degrade
Participle: degraded
Gerund: degrading
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | degrade |
| you | degrade |
| he;she;it | degrades |
| we | degrade |
| you | degrade |
| they | degrade |
Perfect
| I | have degraded |
| you | have degraded |
| he;she;it | has degraded |
| we | have degraded |
| you | have degraded |
| they | have degraded |
Past
| I | degraded |
| you | degraded |
| he;she;it | degraded |
| we | degraded |
| you | degraded |
| they | degraded |
Pluperfect
| I | had degraded |
| you | had degraded |
| he;she;it | had degraded |
| we | had degraded |
| you | had degraded |
| they | had degraded |
Future
| I | will degrade |
| you | will degrade |
| he;she;it | will degrade |
| we | will degrade |
| you | will degrade |
| they | will degrade |
Future Perfect
| I | will have degraded |
| you | will have degraded |
| he;she;it | will have degraded |
| we | will have degraded |
| you | will have degraded |
| they | will have degraded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | degrade |
| you | degrade |
| he;she;it | degrade |
| we | degrade |
| you | degrade |
| they | degrade |
Perfect
| I | have degraded |
| you | have degraded |
| he;she;it | have degraded |
| we | have degraded |
| you | have degraded |
| they | have degraded |
Imperfect
| I | degraded |
| you | degraded |
| he;she;it | degraded |
| we | degraded |
| you | degraded |
| they | degraded |
Pluperfect
| I | had degraded |
| you | had degraded |
| he;she;it | had degraded |
| we | had degraded |
| you | had degraded |
| they | had degraded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would degrade |
| you | would degrade |
| he;she;it | would degrade |
| we | would degrade |
| you | would degrade |
| they | would degrade |
Perfect
| I | would have degraded |
| you | would have degraded |
| he;she;it | would have degraded |
| we | would have degraded |
| you | would have degraded |
| they | would have degraded |
Imperative
| you | degrade |
| we | Let's degrade |
| you | degrade |
Verbs conjugated like 'degrade'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'degrade'
regrade,
aggrade,
begrace,
begrave,
debride,
deglaze,
degradate,
degrease,
degrime,
deprave,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to make ashamed; to destroy the self-possession of
- abase, bring low, debase, demean, depress, disconcert, lower, mortify, put to shame, abash
- to make or render worse
- adulterate, aggravate, canker, contaminate, corrupt, debase, debauch, defile, deflower, deteriorate, envenom, exacerbate, impair, infect, pejorate, set back, stain, vitiate, weaken
- reduce
- depress, break, bump, lessen, cashier, bust, demote, declass
- humiliate
- humble, abase, debase, deteriorate, lower, vitiate, dishonor, disgrace
- corrupt
- deprave, degenerate, debauch, deteriorate
Antonyms
- reduce
- enlarge, augment, amplify, distend
- humiliate
- praise, exalt, honor, glorify
- corrupt
- uncorrupt, honest, pure, undefiled
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle French dégrader.
Sample Sentences
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[...] such as he is accustomed to out of doors, will impress him half as strongly as the contemplation of the same persons in the same place and garb would, if they were occupied in some task, marked and degraded everywhere as belonging only to felons in jails. In an American state prison or house of correction, I found it difficult at first to persuade myself that I was really in a jail: a place of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Mr. and Mrs. Shelby both felt annoyed and degraded by the familiar impudence of the trader, and yet both saw the absolute necessity of putting a constraint on their feelings. The more hopelessly sordid and insensible he appeared, the greater became [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] to manage it, and had done all in his power to promote its usefulness: but will it be believed that the miserable strife of Party feeling is carried even into this sad refuge of afflicted and degraded humanity ? Will it be believed that the eyes which are to watch over and control the wanderings of minds on which the most dreadful visitation to which our nature is exposed has fallen, must wear [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] degraded people, among us, are an evil to us, as well as to themselves. The capitalist and aristocrat of England cannot feel that as we do, because they do not mingle with the class they degrade as we do. They are in our homes; they are the associates of our children, and they form their minds faster than we can; for they are a race that children always will cling to and assimilate with. If [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ You wouldn't degrade yourself that way, Emily ? I never could consent to it. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Degrade ! would it degrade me as much as to break my faith with the helpless ? No, indeed ! ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] nothing. Tom had always lived among refined, and cultivated people, and he felt intuitively, from her air and bearing, that she belonged to that class; but how or why she could be fallen to those degrading circumstances, he could not tell. The woman neither looked at him nor spoke to him, though, all the way to the field, she kept close at his side.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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But, of old, there was One whose suffering changed an instrument of torture, degradation and shame, into a symbol of glory, honor, and immortal life; and, where His spirit is, neither degrading stripes, nor blood, nor insults, can make the Christian's last struggle less than glorious.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)