Thesaurus: degradation

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1. n. The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop.
2. n. The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement.
3. n. Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration.
4. n. A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc.
5. n. The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
6. n. Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole.
7. n. changing to a lower state (a less respected state)
8. n. a low or downcast state
9. 1. The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop. He saw many removes and degradations in all the other offices of which he had been possessed. Clarendon. 2. The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement. The . . . degradation of a needy man of letters. Macaulay. Deplorable is the degradation of our nature. South. Moments there frequently must be, when a sidegradation of his state. Blair. 3. Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration. The development and degradation of the alphabetic forms can be traced. I. Taylor (The Alphabet). 4. (Geol.) A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, fro 5. (Biol.) The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration. The degradation of the species man is observed in some of its varieties. Dana. 6. (Physiol.) Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole. Degradation of energy, or Dissipation of energy (Physics), the transformation of energy into some form in which it is less available for doing work. Syn. -- Abasement; debasement; reduction; decline.
10. A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, bythe action of water, fro
11. n:100 n. changing to a lower state (a less respected state)