Crossword-Solution: DEGRADE 7 letters, 144 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Degrade v. t. 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.
Degrade v. t. 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.
Degrade v. t. To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and
mountains; to wear down.
Degrade v. i. 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.

We have 144 clues for the answer “DEGRADE”

Clue Answers
BREAK down molecule (chem.) 1 answer
BRING into contempt 1 answer
BRING into dishonor/dishonour 1 answer
DEPRIVE ecclesiastic of orders 1 answer
DEPRIVE of orders 1 answer
Drag in the dust. 1 answer
Lower on the totem pole 1 answer
REDUCE to lower organic type (biol.) 1 answer
WEAR down by surface abrasion/disintegration 1 answer
lower the grade of something 1 answer
reduce the level of land, as by erosion 1 answer
Lower in dignity or quality 1 answer
Lower in stature 2 answers
Lessen in value 2 answers
MAKE stale 2 answers
REDUCE to lower class 2 answers
REDUCE to lower grade 2 answers
Reduce in worth 2 answers
Lower in Esteem 3 answers
ENNOBLE (ant.) 3 answers
Break down chemically 3 answers
BRING disgrace upon 3 answers
REDUCE to lower rank 3 answers
dehumanise 4 answers
REMOVE to lower class 4 answers
Lower in status 5 answers
LOWER in dignity 5 answers
CONSIGN to inferior position 5 answers
Impair the reputation of 5 answers
STRIKE off the role 5 answers
Reduce in rank 6 answers
bemean 6 answers
unfrock 6 answers
barbarise 7 answers
barbarize 7 answers
COARSEN 8 answers
Take down a peg 9 answers
BRING discredit on 9 answers
vulgarize 9 answers
IMPROVE (ant.) 9 answers
supersede 9 answers
LOWER in quality 10 answers
vulgarise 11 answers
declass 11 answers
BRING shame upon 11 answers
Wear down 12 answers
Demote 14 answers
Lead astray 14 answers
LOWER in rank 16 answers
Dethrone 16 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with DEGRADE (5)

Most hackers had terrible handwriting to begin with, and years of keyboarding tend to have encouraged it to degrade further.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Dashwood? You would rob it of its simplicity by imaginary improvement! and this dear parlour in which our acquaintance first began, and in which so many happy hours have been since spent by us together, you would degrade to the condition of a common entrance, and every body would be eager to pass through the room which has hitherto contained within itself more real accommodation and comfort than any other apartment of the handsomest dimensions in the world could possibly afford.” Mrs.
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1994
Had the woman left an infection of wickedness in the house, and had he caught it? What devil had possessed him to degrade himself in the eyes of his own servant? He had behaved infamously--he had asked an honest man, a man who had served him faithfully for years, to turn spy! Stung by the bare thought of it, he ran out into the hall again, and opened the door.
The Haunted Hotel Wilkie Collins 2008
Every exemption, on whatsoever ground, is an outrage that can only rob some legitimate voter of his rights." Such laws have been made,--in Mississippi, for example,--with the "understanding" clause, hold out a temptation for the election officer to perjure and degrade himself by too often deciding that the ignorant white man does understand the Constitution when it is read to him, and that the ignorant black man does not.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various 2008
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

Quotes with DEGRADE (3)

I love you,' Buttercup said. 'I know this must come as something of a surprise to you, since all I've ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle…
William Goldman The Princess Bride
I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, and whenever it appears they get so angry and bewildered that they always use two stupid expressions--one is that the work of art is grossly unintelligible; the other, that the work of art is grossly immoral. What they mean by these words seems to me to be this. When they say a wor…
Oscar Wilde
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