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"To support themselves against catastrophic gravitational collapse, neutron stars don't rely on the release of energy from nuclear fusion but rather an exotic quantum phenomenon known as degeneracy pressure. \u2014 Paul Sutter, Ars Technica , 17 June 2022",
"Bird joins other impressive authors who have returned to Carter, despite his low popularity, because his life offers an antidote to the ethical degeneracy of our current moment. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 June 2021",
"It wasn\u2019t sacked by Lego-man Visigoths or brought down by the parasitic forces of degeneracy . \u2014 Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired , 10 June 2021",
"The only way to break this degeneracy would be to take accurate, independent measurements that would nail down the distance to this galaxy, irrespective of any assumptions made. \u2014 Ethan Siegel, Forbes , 22 June 2021",
"His presidency reminds us that the antidote to Trumpian degeneracy is not the devout straight man but the figure of integrity who can also inspire diverse people. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 June 2021",
"Moral watchdogs cried foul and claimed these movies not only desensitized kids to degeneracy \u2014 think of the children! \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 11 June 2021",
"The name conjured high-minded ideals of representative democracy, but this was a true fascist state, complete with shock troops, slavery, and degeneracy laws. \u2014 Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired , 10 June 2021",
"Every word out of her mouth is an indictment not merely of Trump but of her fellow lawmakers' degeneracy and opportunism. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 9 May 2021"
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"Verb",
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"Noun",
"a couple of degenerates on a crime spree",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"There was a glorious point in the \u201890s when Matt Damon seemed only to play unassuming boy genius to his degenerate friends, and Rounders is arguably his finest portrayal of the golden boy archetype. \u2014 Keith Nelson, Men's Health , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Unfortunately, the governor has heard from his top-rate prisoner Tom Christie that Jamie is well-respected among the lads and requests that Mac Dubh tightens up the degenerate brood. \u2014 Lincee Ray, EW.com , 7 Mar. 2022",
"The welfare state can eradicate poverty by distributing income to all non-workers \u2014 or Manchin can falsely smear poor people as degenerate drug addicts and protect rich people (like himself, incidentally) from higher taxes. \u2014 Ryan Cooper, The Week , 20 Dec. 2021",
"Fiona Nova and Will Neff; rising livestreamer CodeMiko; and a degenerate rat-puppet named Ratty. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 12 Oct. 2021",
"Prior to the GameStop madness, when the subreddit Wall Street Bets was a quieter community of degenerate gamblers, members tracked Paul Pelosi\u2019s market moves, often treating them as a joke about their own compulsive trading. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Instead of rejecting Ji-Yoon\u2019s degenerate boyfriend, her father sees him safely home. \u2014 Amanda Whiting, Vulture , 21 Aug. 2021",
"Prior to the GameStop madness, when the subreddit Wall Street Bets was a quieter community of degenerate gamblers, members tracked Paul Pelosi\u2019s market moves, often treating them as a joke about their own compulsive trading. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2021",
"The Nazis viewed French culture as degenerate and dangerous but also as a useful distraction to keep Parisians from rebelling. \u2014 Timothy Schaffert, WSJ , 23 July 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Elections do matter, and debates about ideas can certainly degenerate into navel-gazing exercises. \u2014 Samuel Gregg, National Review , 19 June 2022",
"In response, China may become more inward looking, even degenerate into another hermit kingdom. \u2014 Yanzhong Huang, CNN , 30 June 2022",
"The balance works fairly well, until the proceedings degenerate in the final act into the sort of manic, over-the-top vehicular mayhem that brings the film closer to an animated version of the Fast and Furious franchise. \u2014 Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 Apr. 2022",
"There is a tradition in far-right propagandist literature, to which Bronze Age Pervert is a modern-day inheritor, of a white male hero who rises up against a liberal, racially mixed, feminist, and/or otherwise degenerate society. \u2014 Ian Allen, The New Republic , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Your instinct here is to loll, sprawl, degenerate , create crumbs. \u2014 James Parker, The Atlantic , 8 Apr. 2022",
"History can degenerate into nostalgia from an imaginary golden age, or inspire a utopian quest to erase the past altogether. \u2014 Richard Cohen, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 Mar. 2022",
"But just as language can illuminate thought and regenerate politics, so too language can be used to obscure thought and degenerate politics. \u2014 Mark Satta, The Conversation , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Managers can\u2019t afford to sit back and let debate degenerate . \u2014 Sally Percy, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Nothing can top Penny Marshall\u2019s 1992 movie about women playing baseball in the \u201940s \u2014 Tom Hanks as a lovable degenerate ",
"Griswold effectively fashioned the portrait of the artist as an erratic degenerate . \u2014 New York Times , 24 Mar. 2022",
"When someone has Alzheimer's disease, the person's brain cells that retrieve, process and store information degenerate and die, according to the Alzheimer's Association. \u2014 Kristen Rogers, CNN , 30 Aug. 2021",
"The activities often took place at cast members\u2019 ancestral plantations, but sometimes \u2014 and this is how Bonaparte, who is not a degenerate , comes in \u2014 at Bonaparte\u2019s restaurants. \u2014 Anna Peele, Vulture , 14 Apr. 2021",
"In his most famous exchange from the movie, Sally Kellerman\u2019s Margaret Houlihan wonders how such a degenerate doctor as Donald Sutherland\u2019s Hawkeye Pierce could reach a position of responsibility in the U.S. Army. \u2014 Andrew Dealton, USA TODAY , 8 Dec. 2019",
"Adam Sandler plays a lying degenerate gambler in Uncut Gems, which in its sordid candor turns out to be one of the grabbiest films of the year. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 11 Dec. 2019",
"In his most famous exchange from the movie, Sally Kellerman's Margaret Houlihan wonders how such a degenerate doctor as Donald Sutherland's Hawkeye Pierce could reach a position of responsibility in the U.S. Army. \u2014 CBS News , 8 Dec. 2019",
"Besides, too great a concern with origin degenerates too easily into a concern with purity, and folklore is most impure. \u2014 Kevin Young, The New Yorker , 2 Dec. 2019"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective"
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"\u2014 W. E. Swinton"
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"\u2026 the sitcom has degenerated into a sparring ring of personal insult",
"\u2014 James Wolcott"
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"\u2014 J. C. Powys"
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"At the same time, discotheques degenerated into seedier venues \u2026 \u2014shifty, often Mob-run last-martini stops for business commuters \u2026",
"\u2014 Peter Braunstein"
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"He criticizes what he believes is a degenerate society.",
"a degenerate society in which people had no sense of being citizens, only consumers",
"Verb",
"over the years the community-minded organization degenerated into a club for loafers",
"Noun",
"a couple of degenerates on a crime spree",
"a degenerate who is uninterested in anything but his own gratification",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"There was a glorious point in the \u201890s when Matt Damon seemed only to play unassuming boy genius to his degenerate friends, and Rounders is arguably his finest portrayal of the golden boy archetype. \u2014 Keith Nelson, Men's Health , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Unfortunately, the governor has heard from his top-rate prisoner Tom Christie that Jamie is well-respected among the lads and requests that Mac Dubh tightens up the degenerate brood. \u2014 Lincee Ray, EW.com , 7 Mar. 2022",
"The welfare state can eradicate poverty by distributing income to all non-workers \u2014 or Manchin can falsely smear poor people as degenerate drug addicts and protect rich people (like himself, incidentally) from higher taxes. \u2014 Ryan Cooper, The Week , 20 Dec. 2021",
"Fiona Nova and Will Neff; rising livestreamer CodeMiko; and a degenerate rat-puppet named Ratty. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 12 Oct. 2021",
"Prior to the GameStop madness, when the subreddit Wall Street Bets was a quieter community of degenerate gamblers, members tracked Paul Pelosi\u2019s market moves, often treating them as a joke about their own compulsive trading. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Instead of rejecting Ji-Yoon\u2019s degenerate boyfriend, her father sees him safely home. \u2014 Amanda Whiting, Vulture , 21 Aug. 2021",
"Prior to the GameStop madness, when the subreddit Wall Street Bets was a quieter community of degenerate gamblers, members tracked Paul Pelosi\u2019s market moves, often treating them as a joke about their own compulsive trading. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2021",
"The Nazis viewed French culture as degenerate and dangerous but also as a useful distraction to keep Parisians from rebelling. \u2014 Timothy Schaffert, WSJ , 23 July 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Elections do matter, and debates about ideas can certainly degenerate into navel-gazing exercises. \u2014 Samuel Gregg, National Review , 19 June 2022",
"In response, China may become more inward looking, even degenerate into another hermit kingdom. \u2014 Yanzhong Huang, CNN , 30 June 2022",
"The balance works fairly well, until the proceedings degenerate in the final act into the sort of manic, over-the-top vehicular mayhem that brings the film closer to an animated version of the Fast and Furious franchise. \u2014 Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 Apr. 2022",
"There is a tradition in far-right propagandist literature, to which Bronze Age Pervert is a modern-day inheritor, of a white male hero who rises up against a liberal, racially mixed, feminist, and/or otherwise degenerate society. \u2014 Ian Allen, The New Republic , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Your instinct here is to loll, sprawl, degenerate , create crumbs. \u2014 James Parker, The Atlantic , 8 Apr. 2022",
"History can degenerate into nostalgia from an imaginary golden age, or inspire a utopian quest to erase the past altogether. \u2014 Richard Cohen, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 Mar. 2022",
"But just as language can illuminate thought and regenerate politics, so too language can be used to obscure thought and degenerate politics. \u2014 Mark Satta, The Conversation , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Managers can\u2019t afford to sit back and let debate degenerate . \u2014 Sally Percy, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Nothing can top Penny Marshall\u2019s 1992 movie about women playing baseball in the \u201940s \u2014 Tom Hanks as a lovable degenerate ",
"Griswold effectively fashioned the portrait of the artist as an erratic degenerate . \u2014 New York Times , 24 Mar. 2022",
"When someone has Alzheimer's disease, the person's brain cells that retrieve, process and store information degenerate and die, according to the Alzheimer's Association. \u2014 Kristen Rogers, CNN , 30 Aug. 2021",
"The activities often took place at cast members\u2019 ancestral plantations, but sometimes \u2014 and this is how Bonaparte, who is not a degenerate , comes in \u2014 at Bonaparte\u2019s restaurants. \u2014 Anna Peele, Vulture , 14 Apr. 2021",
"In his most famous exchange from the movie, Sally Kellerman\u2019s Margaret Houlihan wonders how such a degenerate doctor as Donald Sutherland\u2019s Hawkeye Pierce could reach a position of responsibility in the U.S. Army. \u2014 Andrew Dealton, USA TODAY , 8 Dec. 2019",
"Adam Sandler plays a lying degenerate gambler in Uncut Gems, which in its sordid candor turns out to be one of the grabbiest films of the year. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 11 Dec. 2019",
"In his most famous exchange from the movie, Sally Kellerman's Margaret Houlihan wonders how such a degenerate doctor as Donald Sutherland's Hawkeye Pierce could reach a position of responsibility in the U.S. Army. \u2014 CBS News , 8 Dec. 2019",
"Besides, too great a concern with origin degenerates too easily into a concern with purity, and folklore is most impure. \u2014 Kevin Young, The New Yorker , 2 Dec. 2019"
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"\u2026 enacts the degeneration of politics into televisual entertainment \u2026",
"\u2014 Linda Holt"
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"Many of her stories show the degeneration of a principled person into a lethal one \u2026",
"\u2014 Susannah Clapp",
"\u2026 argue that the tradition has radically devolved, and that books like \"The Kiss,\" by Kathryn Harrison, represent the degeneration of a once ennobled form.",
"\u2014 Deborah E. McDowell"
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"the organization's degeneration from a movement for political reform to just another political party",
"the troubling degeneration of his memory since he reached middle age",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In South Africa, preventive lockdowns cause poverty, job losses, and declines in tax revenues, resulting in further service delivery degeneration . \u2014 Glen Retief, The New Republic , 11 May 2022",
"The woman told police that Thomas suffered several concussions playing football and might have CTE \u2014 the term commonly used for brain degeneration caused by head trauma. \u2014 Ryan Autullo, USA TODAY , 6 May 2022",
"Poor posture can lead to injuries, spinal problems, joints degeneration , rounded shoulders and a potbelly. \u2014 Ebony Williams, ajc , 3 May 2022",
"The cause was senile degeneration of the brain, said a daughter, Kathryn Baird. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Synthetic musk compounds disrupt hormonal function, interfere with endocrine processes, and are linked to both neural degeneration and infertility. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Our minds play tricks on us, so that signs of degeneration can go unnoticed for years and then come into focus as harbingers of doom. \u2014 Rachael Bedard, The New Yorker , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Predisposition to osteoarthritis is a factor in knee and hip degeneration . \u2014 Outside Online , 23 Apr. 2019",
"Anolik said the cause was Huntington\u2019s disease, which causes a progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the brain. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Dec. 2021"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for degeneration deterioration , degeneration , decadence , decline mean the falling from a higher to a lower level in quality, character, or vitality. deterioration implies generally the impairment of value or usefulness. the deterioration of the house through neglect degeneration stresses physical, intellectual, or especially moral retrogression. the degeneration of their youthful idealism into cynicism decadence presupposes a reaching and passing the peak of development and implies a turn downward with a consequent loss in vitality or energy. cited love of luxury as a sign of cultural decadence decline differs from decadence in suggesting a more markedly downward direction and greater momentum as well as more obvious evidence of deterioration. the meteoric decline of his career after the scandal",
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": a machine for breaking the kernels of grain or cacao beans and removing the germ":[]
"This rise happened from about 17,500 years ago to 11,700 years ago, causing the deglaciation that made Earth more habitable. \u2014 Anil Ananthaswamy, Smithsonian Magazine , 27 Feb. 2020",
"Which means that the 200 or so samples collected in the field will dramatically improve not only our understanding of past deglaciation events but also the potential futures these ice sheets might breed. \u2014 Elizabeth Rush, National Geographic , 7 Mar. 2019",
"The Reef struggled with period of rapid deglaciation 17,000 and 13,000 years ago, respectively. \u2014 David Grossman, Popular Mechanics , 29 May 2018",
"The next two events occurred during deglaciation that saw rising sea levels and the drowning of the reef, which then adjusted by migrating landward. \u2014 David Carrig, USA TODAY , 29 May 2018"
"White\u2019s willingness to deglamorize stardom \u2014 to take roles that subverted her celebrity or to be funny and frank \u2014 makes clear that for her, the town was, first and foremost, a workplace. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 6 Jan. 2022",
"The camera became a handy tool for those, labeled Minimalists or Conceptualists, who wanted to deglamorize the world (and the artist\u2019s role) by documenting mundane things or repeated actions. \u2014 Richard B. Woodward, WSJ , 30 Dec. 2017"
": to salt (a vegetable) or be salted in order to extract moisture before cooking":[
"Slice and degorge the aubergines and courgettes.",
"\u2014 Rosemary Hume et al.",
"Vegetables such as cucumbers or eggplants are often salted prior to preparation to draw out their bitter juices \u2026 However, there are many cooks who feel that degorging detracts from natural flavors \u2026",
"\u2014 The Encyclopedia Of Herbs, Spices, & Flavorings"
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": to soak (a food, such as meat or fish) or be soaked in cold liquid to remove unwanted matter (such as sand or blood) before cooking":[
"To begin, prepare the clams. Place them in a bowl and cover completely in cold water. Allow to degorge for 1 hour \u2026",
"\u2014 Eataly Cookbook"
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"shocked by the hopeless degradation of the \"poor whites\"",
"\u2014 Edith Wharton",
"Some houses are found spotless, others in a wretched degradation \u2026",
"\u2014 Paul Reyes"
],
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"educated him in the bestiality and degradation that war brings",
"\u2014 Drew Middleton"
],
": the act or process of degrading":[
"environmental degradation",
"the gradual degradation of organic matter",
"\u2026 nothing infuriates the female students more than the degradation of women that is associated with male sports \u2026",
"\u2014 Scott Stossel",
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]
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"examples":[
"English teachers bemoaning the degradation of the language that e-mail and instant messaging have allegedly brought about.",
"the belief that moral degradation is an unmistakable sign of a nation in decline",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"At the summit, Commonwealth leaders are expected to adopt a plan to address climate change, land degradation and biodiversity loss. \u2014 Ignatius Ssuuna, ajc , 24 June 2022",
"Seeking peace and speaking out against drug trafficking, child recruitment into armed groups, and environmental degradation , has come at great cost to Colombia's women leaders. \u2014 Julia Margaret Zulver, CNN , 19 June 2022",
"The pandemic has enabled a greater awareness of the impact environmental degradation and climate change is having on the spread of zoonotic diseases like Covid. \u2014 Nitin Rakesh, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"And too often in minority communities economic growth comes with environmental degradation , so our need for economic growth is linked to the need for environmental justice. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 18 May 2022",
"Robinson views it as a counterweight to the environmental degradation and poverty that has so often afflicted Richmond, one of the poorest communities in the Bay Area. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 May 2022",
"Investigators discovered Bradshaw had made numerous separate public posts that contained at least 10 unique visual representations of the victim, many with language related to humiliation and degradation , the state prosecutor\u2019s office said. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The Day May Break does so beautifully and poignantly\u2014portraying people and animals impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. \u2014 Jeff Campagna, Smithsonian Magazine , 9 Dec. 2021",
"In fact, the Seychelles government is under pressure from watchdog organizations to mitigate the harm and to demand that the worst offenders pay fines for the degradation these nets inflict. \u2014 Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure , 19 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1535, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see degrade":""
},
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"\u02ccdeg-r\u0259-\u02c8d\u0101-sh\u0259n",
"\u02ccde-gr\u0259-\u02c8d\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"decadence",
"declension",
"declination",
"decline",
"degeneracy",
"degeneration",
"d\u00e9gringolade",
"descent",
"deterioration",
"devolution",
"downfall",
"downgrade",
"ebb",
"eclipse",
"fall"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061516",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
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"advance",
"elevate",
"promote",
"raise"
],
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": to become reduced in complexity":[
"plastics that don't easily degrade"
],
": to bring to low esteem or into disrepute":[
"his actions have degraded his profession",
"punishments intended to humiliate and degrade prisoners"
],
": to drag down in moral or intellectual character : corrupt":[
"the Indians who consume peyote buttons do not seem to be \u2026 morally degraded by the habit",
"\u2014 Aldous Huxley"
],
": to impair in respect to some physical property":[
"material degraded by exposure to sunlight"
],
": to lower in grade, rank, or status : demote":[],
": to lower to an inferior or less effective level":[
"degrade the image quality"
],
": to pass from a higher grade or class to a lower":[
"causes the meat to degrade in quality"
],
": to reduce the complexity of (a chemical compound) : decompose":[],
": to scale down in desirability or salability":[],
": to strip of rank or honors":[],
": to wear down by erosion":[
"degraded the hillside"
]
},
"examples":[
"The group accuses the company of degrading women in its ads.",
"He felt degraded by their remarks.",
"Scratches on a camera lens will degrade the image.",
"Pollution has degraded air quality.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The problem involves a bushing that attaches the shift cable to the transmission, which may degrade or detach, according to a recall notice posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. \u2014 Phil Helsel, NBC News , 16 June 2022",
"These packaging methods help protect the probiotics from light and oxygen, both of which can degrade the quality of the probiotics. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 6 June 2022",
"At the same time, methane isn\u2019t the only environmental consequence from raising cows; cattle ranching can degrade habitat for at-risk wildlife such as the sage grouse, conservationists say. \u2014 Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"Security initiatives must be embedded into a portal\u2019s design, but don\u2019t let solutions degrade the user experience. \u2014 Stanley H. Huang, Forbes , 28 Dec. 2021",
"Plastic waste can take centuries to degrade , and causes extensive damage to marine ecosystems. \u2014 Ilan Ben Zion, ajc , 10 June 2022",
"For sustainable ingredients, brands can choose to include plants that are grown and harvested sustainably (and ethically, ofc) and don't degrade the earth. \u2014 Abby Dupes, Seventeen , 16 May 2022",
"Who knew if Andy was going to scream or yell at you, degrade you, be friendly, or just be confused or inquisitive",
"But none of them degrade it more than spreading the lie that elections in the United States are systematically untrustworthy and rigged against one of the country's two parties. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 14 Sep. 2021"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":""
},
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French degrader , from Late Latin degradare , from Latin de- + gradus step, grade \u2014 more at grade entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"di-\u02c8gr\u0101d",
"d\u0113-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"break",
"bust",
"demote",
"disrate",
"downgrade",
"reduce"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092600",
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
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"pure",
"uncorrupt",
"uncorrupted"
],
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": characterized by degeneration of structure or function":[],
": reduced far below ordinary standards of civilized life and conduct":[]
},
"examples":[
"many observers deplored the fact that the city's festivities for Mardi Gras had become a degraded , drunken celebration",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"These drones are small surveillance UAVs that operate in high-threat, GPS degraded environments. \u2014 Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 9 June 2022",
"The most pressing issue is the degraded state of our national dialogue. \u2014 Eric Loeb, Baltimore Sun , 18 May 2022",
"Even in its degraded state, the Russian garrison on Snake Island might be capable of defeating a heliborne assault. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 7 May 2022",
"Scientists have found these tiny bits of degraded plastic\u2014along with fibers shed from synthetic fabric, and microbeads from cosmetics\u2014lurking throughout the oceans, lakes, soil and even the air. \u2014 Andrea Thompson, Scientific American , 12 Nov. 2018",
"But degraded conventual forces could drive Putin to other means of exerting force. \u2014 Matt Seyler, ABC News , 10 May 2022",
"The novel discloses a vision of urban life in which everyone from the poor, degraded street sweeper Jo to the haughty aristocratic Lady Dedlock turns out to be tightly connected. \u2014 Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic , 15 Mar. 2022",
"His startup is on a mission to diversify the food system with an environmentally-friendly crop that Langwallner says can restore degraded land, cut water consumption, improve our diet and increase food security: the Bambara groundnut. \u2014 Rebecca Cairns, CNN , 8 May 2022",
"His rapid-fire sequences of degraded black-and-white imagery downloaded from the Internet flash up on a giant screen. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1643, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"d\u0113-",
"di-\u02c8gr\u0101-d\u0259d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"decadent",
"degenerate",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"jackleg",
"libertine",
"loose",
"perverse",
"perverted",
"rakehell",
"rakehelly",
"rakish",
"reprobate",
"sick",
"unclean",
"unwholesome",
"warped"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015504",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"degrading":{
"antonyms":[
"commendatory",
"complimentary",
"laudative",
"laudatory"
],
"definitions":{
": causing or associated with a low, destitute, or demoralized state : causing someone to be or feel degraded":[
"a degrading experience",
"\u2026 a work about a young man full of bottled rage looking for a degrading job \u2026",
"\u2014 Penelope Gilliatt",
"\u2026 any cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment of detainees was absolutely forbidden \u2026",
"\u2014 David Cole"
]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1540, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"di-\u02c8gr\u0101-di\u014b",
"d\u0113-"
],
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"synonyms":[
"belittling",
"contemptuous",
"decrying",
"demeaning",
"denigrative",
"denigratory",
"deprecatory",
"depreciative",
"depreciatory",
"derisory",
"derogative",
"derogatory",
"detractive",
"disdainful",
"disparaging",
"pejorative",
"scornful",
"slighting",
"uncomplimentary"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-190533",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"degree":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a grade of membership attained in a ritualistic order or society":[
"received his first degree in the Knights of Columbus"
],
": a legal measure of guilt or negligence":[
"found guilty of murder in the first degree"
],
": a line or space of the musical staff":[],
": a measure of damage to tissue caused by injury or disease \u2014 compare first-degree burn , second-degree burn , third-degree burn":[],
": a member of a series arranged in steps (as of parts of a structure)":[],
": a particular standing especially as to dignity or worth":[],
": a position or space on the earth or in the heavens as measured by degrees of latitude":[],
": a rank or grade of official, ecclesiastical , or social position":[
"people of low degree"
],
": a step in a direct line of descent or in the line of ascent to a common ancestor":[],
": a step or stage in a process, course, or order of classification":[
"advanced by degrees",
"We all know that you're only three degrees away from all sorts of interesting and even famous people on social media.",
"\u2014 Alex Proud"
],
": a step, note, or tone of a scale":[],
": a title conferred on students by a college, university, or professional school on completion of a program of study":[
"earned her four-year degree",
"associate's degrees",
"has a degree in psychology"
],
": an academic title conferred to honor distinguished achievement or service":[
"The actor was presented with an honorary degree ."
],
": in a small way":[
"to a degree he succeeded"
],
": one of the forms or sets of forms used in the comparison of an adjective or adverb":[],
": relative intensity":[
"a high degree of stress"
],
": step , stair":[],
": the civil (see civil sense 4 ) condition or status of a person":[],
": the extent, measure, or scope of an action, condition, or relation":[
"different in degree but not in kind",
"requiring a high degree of skill"
],
": the formal ceremonies observed in the conferral of such a distinction":[],
": the greatest power of the derivative of highest order in a differential equation after the equation has been rationalized (see rationalize sense 2 ) and cleared of fractions with respect to the derivative":[],
": the sum of the exponents of the variable factors of a monomial":[],
": the sum of the exponents of the variables in the term of highest degree in a polynomial , polynomial function, or polynomial equation":[],
": to a remarkable extent : exceedingly":[
"I felt desolate to a degree",
"\u2014 Charlotte Bront\u00eb"
]
},
"examples":[
"There are 360 degrees in a circle.",
"These trees will thrive, to a greater or lesser degree , in a number of climates.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Under the new system, the state won\u2019t authorize permits for people with criminal convictions within the past five years for driving while intoxicated, menacing or third- degree assault. \u2014 Marina Villeneuve, Anchorage Daily News , 2 July 2022",
"Brown was charged with kidnapping, felon in possession of a firearm, second- degree domestic battering, terroristic threatening, fleeing and tampering with evidence. \u2014 John Lynch, Arkansas Online , 2 July 2022",
"After a second arrest in Hawaii in April, this time for second- degree assault after allegedly throwing a chair at a woman and leaving her with a cut on her forehead, the actor additionally has had two protection orders placed against them. \u2014 Manori Ravindran, Variety , 1 July 2022",
"Michael Ray Tillman, 24, was indicted on a first- degree murder charge after he was arrested as a fugitive in Bismarck, North Dakota, according to the district attorney's office in Shelby County, Tennessee. \u2014 Fox News , 1 July 2022",
"Under the new system, the state won't authorize permits for people with criminal convictions within the past five years for driving while intoxicated, menacing or third- degree assault. \u2014 CBS News , 1 July 2022",
"Hall in April was booked into the Chilton County Jail in connection with a 2019 third- degree burglary. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 1 July 2022",
"Rickey Hodges Thomas was found guilty Thursday of first- and second- degree arson, criminal damage to property and burglary in connection with the November 2018 blaze. \u2014 Matt Bruce, ajc , 1 July 2022",
"He was subsequently charged with second- degree assault and spent a night in police custody before a video emerged showing the assault as something more benign \u2014 a pat on the back. \u2014 Ginia Bellafante, New York Times , 30 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French degr\u00e9 , from Vulgar Latin *degradus , from Latin de- + gradus \u2014 see degrade":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"di-\u02c8gr\u0113"
],
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"chapter",
"cut",
"grade",
"inch",
"notch",
"peg",
"phase",
"place",
"point",
"stage",
"step"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072550",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"degradation of energy":{
"type":[],
"definitions":{
": the process by which energy becomes less available for doing work \u2014 compare conservation of energy , dissipation of energy":[]
