Don't degrade yourself by telling such a lie.
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Degrade
//dɪˈɡɹeɪd//
Synonyms for "degrade" (216 found)
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Closest matches (44)
Verb(14 words)
Strong matches (64)
Related words (108)
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14 entrieshas context
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1 entriesTranslations
51 translations across 19 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَرَدَّى verb (to reduce in quality or purity)
Bulgarian
4 entries- деградирам verb (to reduce in quality or purity)
- понижавам verb (to lower in value or social position)
- разжалвам verb (to lower in value or social position)
- разлагам се verb (to reduce in quality or purity)
Catalan
2 entries- degradar verb (to lower in value or social position)
- degradar verb (to reduce in quality or purity)
Czech
2 entries- degradovat verb (to lower in value or social position)
- znehodnotit verb (to reduce in quality or purity)
Dutch
3 entries- aftakelen verb (to reduce in quality or purity)
- degraderen verb (to reduce in quality or purity)
- vervallen verb (to reduce in quality or purity)
Finnish
3 entries- alentaa verb (to lower in value or social position)
- alentaa verb (to reduce in quality or purity)
- heikentää verb (to reduce in quality or purity)
German
4 entries- abbauen verb (to reduce in quality or purity)
- degradieren verb (to lower in value or social position)
- erodieren verb (to reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down)
- herabsetzen verb (to lower in value or social position)
Hungarian
4 entries- bomlik verb (to reduce in quality or purity)
- degradál verb (to lower in value or social position)
- degradálódik verb (to reduce in quality or purity)
- elbomlik verb (to reduce in quality or purity)
Irish
1 entries- ísligh verb (to lower in value or social position)
Italian
2 entries- degradare verb (to lower in value or social position)
- degradarsi verb (to reduce in quality or purity)
Ladino
1 entries- enkorkovarse verb (to lower in value or social position)
Latin
1 entries- obterō verb (to lower in value or social position)
Māori
1 entries- whakapāpaku verb (to lower in value or social position)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- آشاغیلامق verb (to lower in value or social position)
Portuguese
4 entries- degradar verb (to lower in value or social position)
- degradar verb (to reduce in quality or purity)
- desgastar verb (to reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down)
- erodir verb (to reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down)
Sanskrit
1 entries- भ्रंशते verb (to lower in value or social position)
Spanish
3 entries- degradar verb (to lower in value or social position)
- degradar verb (to reduce in quality or purity)
- erosionar verb (to reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down)
Swedish
2 entries- degradera verb (to lower in value or social position)
- nedvärdera verb (to lower in value or social position)
Welsh
2 entries- diraddio verb (to lower in value or social position)
- diraddio verb (to reduce in quality or purity)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Batteries degrade over time.
Source: tatoeba (6566679)
Systems in which the rules are based on usage, such as languages or customary law, are condemned to become absurd, cumbersome and contradictory, since every time a small error slips into one of their usages, it is integrated into the rules, by definition, for eternity. The more users are ignorant, the more systems degrade rapidly. English, poorly used by millions of people, natives or not, for centuries, is an example of the degradation of a system at terminal stage, no longer presenting any logic, neither in its syntax, nor its grammar, nor its vocabulary or its pronunciation. Similarly, with customary rights becoming too cumbersome and incomprehensible, the states which rely on them tend to switch to prescriptive law.
Source: tatoeba (6841089)
I do not degrade you. I purify you.
Source: tatoeba (7842548)
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