Degrades
[di'ɡreidz]
Examples
- The knowledge it brings you is bought too dear, Monsieur; this coming and going by stealth degrades your own dignity. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It degrades to stoop; it is glorious to look up. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Even the fashionable quarters had the air of untidy domesticity to which no excess of heat ever degrades the European cities. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
Editor: Ozzie