degradationnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌdeɡ.rəˈdeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌdeɡ.rəˈdeɪ.ʃən/degradation noun [ U ] (DESTRUCTION)
the process in which the beauty or quality of something is destroyed or spoiled:
environmental degradation
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Deteriorating and making worse
- a step backwards idiom
- a turn of the screw idiom
- add
- afford
- aggravate
- backslide
- compound
- decline
- degrade
- dog
- downgrade
- downhill
- exacerbate
- fan the flames idiom
- retrograde
- retrogress
- run yourself down
- seed
- slip
- slippery slope
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Damaging and spoiling
degradation noun [ U ] (LOSS OF RESPECT)
formal the situation in which people are made to feel they have no value:
the misery and degradation of prison life
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Humiliating and degrading
- abase
- be under a cloud idiom
- bring/take sb down a peg (or two) idiom
- bruise
- bruise sb's ego idiom
- compromise
- cut sb down to size idiom
- deflate
- degrade
- doghouse
- exhibition
- fall from grace idiom
- forget
- grubby
- indignity
- knock
- knock sb off their pedestal idiom 1
- knock sb off their pedestal
- lower your sights idiom
- peg
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