Degrade: alternatives and connections

To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.

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To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.

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Vexation; mortification.

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To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease.

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Exasperated; imbittered.

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Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

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To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify.

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To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.

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To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

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To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.

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To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair.

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To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.

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To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

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To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.

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To manage; to conduct; to treat.

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The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.

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