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1. To lower in dignity or estimation; bring into contempt.
2. To lower in character or quality; debase.
3. To reduce (someone) to a lower rank, degree, etc; deprive of office, rank, status, or title, esp. as a punishment.
1. The act of degrading.
2. The state of being degraded.
3. Humiliation, disgrace, dishonour, debasement.
4. The act of reducing someone of rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; lowering one's standing or rank in society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a "submissive".
5. The state of being reduced in moral, physical, or intellectual ways,
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