Degrades is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEGRADES in dictionary:

VERB:
• DEGRADE, 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.

Words related to DEGRADES

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Words that contain DEGRADES

biodegrades16

How to use DEGRADES in a sentence

• So me that great man badly treats, Nor uses as his wife, Degrades me from my proper place, And fills with grief my life.
• What degrades the free negro to-day, is the existence of the negro slave.
• All this degrades him, of course, but it improves the lecture for general delivery.
• The continual necessity for their services enhances the importance of the soldier, and proportionably degrades the condition of the citizen.
• The allusion degrades the person who makes, not him to whom it is applied.
• Hindley Earnshaw is brutal to the foundling, Heathcliff, and degrades him.
• The assertion so commonly made, that the Public degrades Art, is not well founded.
• He would show how it degrades the finest characters who have suffered it to predominate.
• But who is to fix the limit to such vague concessions? Nay, more, he degrades men to the level of the brute creation.
• But culture, revealing the high origin of the apparent world and aiming at the perfection of the man as the end, degrades everything else, as health and bodily life, into means.
• The rich man cannot benefit the poor, nor the superior the inferior, by anything that degrades him.
• The idea that such having and holding will alienate a good woman from the husband who permits it, degrades the sex.
• Prayer, for example, elevates the soul, base thinking degrades it.
• Then, with that feminine craft which always slightly degrades virtue, Madame Jules waited for another question.
• Now if there be anything certain about the action of alcohol upon the brain, it is that it degrades the quality of the self.
• Curses on business, if it so degrades me that I can not even ask satisfaction for insult.
• Vice only degrades men who are ennobled by virtue, 622-l.
• I call it an abuse, for such action degrades the Bible to the level of a heathen oracle.
• It seems to me that to suppose that it is by men degrades this promise, instead of making it the climax of the whole series.
• The comparison is inevitable between the commander and him who obeys, and, in his estimation, unconsciously elevates and degrades.
• In the first place she runs the risk of infection, in the second every one else thinks she degrades herself by coming here as she does.
• Cheap binding degrades books and costs more in the end than good work.

Similar words containing GRADE without suffix s and without prefix de

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