degraded
di gray duhd
- v reduce the level of land, as by erosion
- v reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
- v lower the grade of something; reduce its worth
- s unrestrained by convention or morality
deplorably dissipated and degraded - s lowered in value
- The word "nigger" was virulent in those days, invective that degraded a whole race's status.
- His immediate response was to flee the country that so degraded people of color, but then his inner resilience overpowered him with a sense of mission, and he stayed to redeem the .
- This destructive biofuel dynamic is on vivid display in Brazil, where a Rhode Island--size chunk of the Amazon was deforested in the second half of 2007 and even more was degraded .