degradation

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[ UK /dɪɡɹɐdˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌdɛɡɹəˈdeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a low or downcast state
    each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement
  2. changing to a lower state (a less respected state)
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How To Use degradation In A Sentence

  • And while Annie inflicts humiliation and degradation and withholds pain relief and food Paul is forced to write a new chapter every day simply to stay alive.
  • That is damaging to native fish life and plant life, and contributes to the degradation of fresh waters.
  • In a few short but intense years we began to atone for centuries of environmental degradation.
  • Test your different textiles for color fastness and degradation to long-term ultraviolet exposure.
  • The PMD-induced pulse broadening may cause degradation of receiver sensitivity and has negative effects on the power spectrum of received signals.
  • State records indicate there is considerable groundwater degradation at the site, and that high levels of arsenic and antimony have been recorded.
  • Neem oil is nondrying, and it resists degradation better than most vegetable oils. 8 Industrial Products
  • How long can we sustain the environmental and social degradation that consumer culture perpetuates?
  • Vallejo told the intimate story of the degradation that Royce had deplored only from the outside.
  • It's absurd things like that that balance the movie off its pain-film miserableness; this is a really funny movie, despite the constant stream of tragedy, loss, degradation and soul-shattering identity crisis its characters undergo.
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