How to Use degrade in a Sentence

degrade

verb
Definition of degradenext
Synonyms for degradenext
  • Scratches on a camera lens will degrade the image.
  • The group accuses the company of degrading women in its ads.
  • He felt degraded by their remarks.
  • Pollution has degraded air quality.
  • Bettery still, the ANC didn’t degrade the sound of the music.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
  • The problem is that cane toad toxins take longer to degrade.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The hairs, found in 2010, were degraded and DNA testing at the time couldn’t yield results.
    — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 15 July 2023
  • The warning reminds boaters that the foam life jackets can degrade and fail.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 30 June 2021
  • By then the fierce winds had degraded to medium-strength breezes.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • These are all quick ways to degrade the company and the quality of the platform.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 31 Oct. 2022
  • When an egg sits and matures in storage, the white will begin to break down or degrade.
    — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Either shape, the team fretted, might degrade project safety and set off alarms at the EPA.
    — Wired, 29 July 2022
  • Rinse the spot with clean water to remove any soap residue, which might degrade the fabric over time.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 July 2024
  • The stomach tends to degrade them, and Levin says the current version of their compound would need to be a pretty large pill.
    — WIRED, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Hence, the products should still work, but the experience may degrade over time.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 10 Apr. 2023
  • My philosophy is to build the kids up and never yell at them or degrade them.
    — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The blades will not degrade even after sanding and painting.
    — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 26 Sep. 2022
  • If it's degraded... the photoreceptors in the back of the eye could be lost forever.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The result did more to degrade Tocqueville than to elevate Louis-Napoleon.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Faster charging speeds can degrade the battery faster, and that’s not something Apple wants to risk.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Mar. 2022
  • These practices degrade soil and emit a vast amount of greenhouse gases.
    — Chad Frischmann, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The neurotoxin will just need to degrade in your system on its own over time.
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The red tires are softer than the black ones and often faster initially but tend to degrade within a lap or two.
    — Arkansas Online, 20 June 2021
  • But some forms of insulation begin to degrade at around the 15-year mark.
    — Tribune News Service, al, 18 June 2022
  • Our mission to degrade the terrorist threat of al-Qaida in Afghanistan and kill Osama bin Laden was a success.
    — Katie Vogel, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2021
  • These strikes were meant to disrupt and degrade their ability to conduct these strikes.
    — CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The systems could also slowly degrade over time, the person said.
    — Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
  • In the case of the new study, benzoyl peroxide can degrade into benzene.
    — Elizabeth Yuko, Health, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Just like a smartphone, these batteries degrade over time.
    — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Avoid freezing for too long, as your batter may degrade in quality or effectiveness (in the case of leavening agents) over time.
    — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2024

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