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degradeverb to bring to a lower grade or rankthe view that such a system degrades doctors to the status of medical employees who ultimately are not in charge of their patients' health care break, bust, demote, disrate, downgrade, reduce can, cashier, dismiss, downsize, fire, lay off, sackabase, debase, demean, humble, humiliate, lower advance, elevate, promote, raise hire to lower in character, dignity, or qualitydegrading the school's animal mascot with a silly costume abase, bastardize, canker, cheapen, corrupt, debase, debauch, demean, demoralize, deprave, deteriorate, lessen, pervert, poison, profane, prostitute, subvert, vitiate, warp befoul, begrime, contaminate, defile, dilute, dirty, pollute, taint, thin, water down, weakendescenddisgrace, dishonor, humble, humiliate, shame, take downblemish, damage, deface, destroy, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, mar, ruin, spoil, stain, tarnish, wreckdepreciate, downgrade elevate, ennoble, uplift dignify, exalt, honorameliorate, amend, better, enhance, enrich, improve, meliorate, perfectclarify, clean, cleanse, purify, refine, restorerespect to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyesthe players degraded themselves with their crude antics off the field abase, chasten, cheapen, debase, demean, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, foul, humble, humiliate, lower, shame, sink, smirch, take down abash, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, embarrass, faze, fluster, mortify, nonplus, rattlebelittle, castigate, criticize, cry down, decry, depreciate, detract, diminish, discount, disparage, minimize, put down, ridicule, write offbad-mouth, defame, defile, libel, malign, slanderaffront, insultcensure, condemn, damn, denounce, execrate, reprehend, reprobate aggrandize, canonize, deify, elevate, exalt acclaim, applaud, boast, celebrate, cheer, cite, commend, compliment, congratulate, decorate, eulogize, extol(also extoll), fete(or fête), hail, honor, laud, praise, salute, toutacknowledge, recognizehighlight, play up, spotlightdignify, ennoble, enshrine, ensky, enthrone, glorify, magnifyadvance, boost, lift, promote, raise, upgrade, upliftidealize, romanticize in the 14th century |