Degraded

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all.

He degraded himself by telling me lies.

Drug addiction degraded many people.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Sixty-five percent of U.S. estuaries and coastal water bodies are moderately to severely degraded by excessive nutrient inputs, which lead to algal blooms and low-oxygen (hypoxic) waters that can kill fish and seagrass and reduce essential fish habitats.

Climate change and ocean acidification can result in mass coral bleaching events, increased susceptibility to disease, slower growth and reproductive rates, and degraded reef structure.

Stoner notes that some species of primates may actually help degraded areas of forest to re-grow, by dispersing seeds as they move between forest fragments.

Impacts from these fires have included degraded aquatic habitat, exotic-plant establishment, and potential future flooding and channel change.

Algeria has demonstrated commendable leadership by implementing innovative strategies and policies to mitigate desertification and restore degraded lands.

The first language I learned was Spanish but since I was born and grew up in an Anglophone country, I constantly hear more English than Spanish and my skill has degraded somewhat, so, do I even qualify as a native speaker?