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UK
/dɪɡɹɐdˈeɪʃən/
]
[ US /ˌdɛɡɹəˈdeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌdɛɡɹəˈdeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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a low or downcast state
each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement - changing to a lower state (a less respected state)
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.
- And even they may not be properly fit to do so, for those who fathomed the depths of human degradation in Leningrad did not survive to tell the tale. Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege 1941-44 by Anna Reid – review
- 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.
