degrade
- IPA[dəˈɡrād]
美式
- treat or regard (someone) with contempt or disrespect；lower the quality of; cause to deteriorate
verb: degrade, 3rd person present: degrades, gerund or present participle: degrading, past tense: degraded, past participle: degraded
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動詞
- 1. treat or regard (someone) with contempt or disrespect she thought that many supposedly erotic pictures degraded women 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ lower the quality of; cause to deteriorate repeaters clean up and amplify the degraded signal
- ▪ archaic reduce (someone) to a lower rank, especially as a punishment he was degraded from his high estate
- 2. break down or deteriorate chemically the bacteria will degrade hydrocarbons when exposed to light the materials will degrade 同義詞
- ▪ reduce (energy) to a less readily convertible form.
- ▪ wear down (rock) and cause it to disintegrate.
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- IPA[dɪˈɡreɪd]
英式
- treat or regard (someone) with contempt or disrespect: she thought that many supposedly erotic pictures degraded women
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