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What does degrade mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word degrade? Here's what it means.

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  1. (transitive) To lower in value or social position.
  2. (intransitive) To reduce in quality or purity.
  3. (transitive, geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
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As plants do not possess a mechanism to degrade lignins, lignification represents a significant, non-recoverable investment of carbon and energy.
By choosing appropriate mantissas and exponents, we can increase the resolution at shallower depths and degrade it at greater depths.
Polycarbonate baby bottles, for example, may leach an estrogenic compound called bisphenol A as they degrade.
But having him degrade you in such a way, I think, you know, here again was a low blow.
I'm writing about another loaded word, one which people throw around on campus to stereotype, dismiss, and degrade their fellow students.
Acid hydrolases of the lysosomes degrade the apoproteins and release free fatty acids and cholesterol.

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