degrade

verb

1. lower the grade of something
reduce its worth

Synonym: cheapen

2. reduce the level of land, as by erosion

3. reduce in worth or character, usually verbally

e.g. She tends to put down younger women colleagues
His critics took him down after the lecture

Synonym: take downdisgracedemeanput down

1. 使丢脸;有辱…的人格;降低…的身份
Something that degrades someone causes people to have less respect for them.

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e.g. ...the notion that pornography degrades women...
认为色情作品有辱女性尊严的观念
e.g. When I asked him if he had ever been to a prostitute he said he wouldn't degrade himself like that.
我问他是否找过妓女时，他说他不会自贬身份去干那种事情。

2. 使恶化;使退化
To degrade something means to cause it to get worse.

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e.g. ...the ability to meet human needs indefinitely without degrading the environment.
无限制地满足人类需求而不造成环境退化的能力

3. （使）降解
In science, if a substance degrades or if something degrades it, it changes chemically and decays or separates into different substances.

e.g. This substance degrades rapidly in the soil.
这种物质在土壤里会迅速降解。
e.g. ...the ability of these enzymes to degrade cellulose.
这些酶降解纤维素的能力

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