Degrade is valid Scrabble Word

Is degrade a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is degrade valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for DEGRADE in dictionary:

VERB:

to debase, also DISGRADE
treat or regard (someone) with contempt or disrespect
lower the character or quality of
reduce (someone) to a lower rank, especially as a punishment
break down or deteriorate chemically
reduce (energy) to a less readily convertible form.
wear down (rock) and cause it to disintegrate.
reduce to dishonour or disgrace
To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer.
To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man.

To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera.
reduce the level of land, as by erosion
reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
lower the grade of something; reduce its worth

Words related to DEGRADE

degraded12 degradedly17 degrader11 degraders12 degrades11 degrading13 disgrade11 imbase10

Words that contain DEGRADE

degraded12 degrader11 degrades11 degraders12 biodegrade15 degradedly17 biodegraded17 biodegrades16

How to use DEGRADE in a sentence

For in regard to passion, alas! its tendency is to degrade rather than to elevate the Soul.
Poor mulatto! thought I, one of an oppressed race, they degrade you like a hound.
The House on a recent occasion have attempted to degrade the President by adopting the resolution of Mr.
FAUST I am not used to it, nor can myself degrade So far, as in my hand to take the spade.
He is reported to have said once that it had taken him five years to degrade himself sufficiently to be able to enjoy the society of modern women.
VII It is an error either to glorify or degrade the body.
The reekings of slavery will almost inevitably taint the institutions of religion, and degrade the standard of piety.
One senses the tragedy that affects well-known scholars, writers and poets, who must degrade themselves, their work, their past and their families in order to survive.
It is for this reason that they degrade truth and that it becomes without power in their hands.
He had said he could not conscientiously degrade his art for a price.

To do so is to degrade yourself and the man to whom you kneel.
They combined, and easily persuaded Ferdinand, who had also been insulted by his arrogance, again to degrade him.
The action is transferred to the subtle parts of the ether which suffer none of the energy to degrade.
These brothers of Charles, and sons of the romantic King John, seem to represent all the traits and passions which can degrade humanity.
They rarely degrade themselves for money or for such considerations, but it is for love or pleasure that they fall.
Him, the God-man, no humiliation could degrade, no death defeat.
In spite of his neglect, his indifference, she loved him and it was just because she loved him that it broke her heart to see him degrade his manhood.
If it might be possible to him he would live up to it and neither degrade his order nor betray his country.
These proceedings must degrade the General Government, and lead the people to lean more on their State governments, which have been sunk under the early popularity of the former.
But the chivalrous impulse to exalt woman above man is as mistaken as the impulse to degrade her beneath him.
You are looking for a way to degrade me in my own feelings, yet to deceive me.
How can I have any desire to degrade you since I must degrade myself at the same time? I have no wish to tell any one the secret which belongs only to you and me.
The sins that sapped the life of Ephesus are the same that degrade contemporary life.
You say you love a woman, you treat her like a duchess, and then you want to degrade her? Well, my good fellow, and you are right.
Think not I would degrade myself by giving my heart to any one who deemed me or my father beneath his notice.
Both influences degrade him and he helps to foster both.
Her station in life was beneath his so far that the only recognition she could have would be one which would degrade her.
Men, who consent to let others degrade themselves for their sport, become degraded in their turn.

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