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degradesverbpresent tense third-person singular of degrade 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 breaks, busts, demotes, disrates, downgrades, reduces cans, cashiers, dismisses, downsizes, fires, lays off, sacksabases, debases, demeans, humbles, humiliates, lowers advances, elevates, promotes, raises hires to lower in character, dignity, or qualitydegrading the school's animal mascot with a silly costume abases, bastardizes, cankers, cheapens, corrupts, debases, debauches, demeans, demoralizes, depraves, deteriorates, lessens, perverts, poisons, profanes, prostitutes, subverts, vitiates, warps befouls, begrimes, contaminates, defiles, dilutes, dirties, pollutes, taints, thins, waters down, weakensdescendsdisgraces, dishonors, humbles, humiliates, shames, takes downblemishes, damages, defaces, destroys, flaws, harms, hurts, impairs, mars, ruins, spoils, stains, tarnishes, wrecksdepreciates, downgrades elevates, ennobles, uplifts dignifies, exalts, honorsameliorates, amends, betters, enhances, enriches, improves, meliorates, perfectsclarifies, cleans, cleanses, purifies, refines, restoresrespects 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 abases, chastens, cheapens, debases, demeans, discredits, disgraces, dishonors, fouls, humbles, humiliates, lowers, shames, sinks, smirches, takes down abashes, confounds, confuses, discomfits, disconcerts, discountenances, embarrasses, fazes, flusters, mortifies, nonpluses(or nonplusses), rattlesbelittles, castigates, cries down, criticizes, decries, depreciates, detracts, diminishes, discounts, disparages, minimizes, puts down, ridicules, writes offbad-mouths, defames, defiles, libels, maligns, slandersaffronts, insultscensures, condemns, damns, denounces, execrates, reprehends, reprobates aggrandizes, canonizes, deifies, elevates, exalts acclaims, applauds, boasts, celebrates, cheers, cites, commends, compliments, congratulates, decorates, eulogizes, extols(also extolls), fetes(or fêtes), hails, honors, lauds, praises, salutes, toutsacknowledges, recognizeshighlights, plays up, spotlightsdignifies, ennobles, enshrines, enskies, enthrones, glorifies, magnifiesadvances, boosts, lifts, promotes, raises, upgrades, upliftsidealizes, romanticizes |