Thesaurus / degrade
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They need the right moisture levels and microbes to degrade.
A DIRTY AND GROWING PROBLEM: TOO FEW TOILETSSTEPHANIE PARKERSEPTEMBER 24, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSThere has also been much speculation about a “million-mile battery” capable of being recharged many more times than current models without degrading.
WHAT TESLA’S BATTERY DAY MIGHT REVEAL: PROJECT ROADRUNNER, MODEL S PLAID, AND MOREDZANEMORRISSEPTEMBER 21, 2020FORTUNEExtreme temperatures, low pressure and radiation can quickly degrade cell membranes and destroy DNA.
IF BACTERIA STICK TOGETHER, THEY CAN SURVIVE FOR YEARS IN SPACEJONATHAN LAMBERTSEPTEMBER 18, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSThe thalattosaur remains show little evidence of being degraded by stomach acid, suggesting the ichthyosaur died shortly after its enormous meal.
THIS ICHTHYOSAUR DIED AFTER DEVOURING A CREATURE NEARLY AS LONG AS ITSELFMARIA TEMMINGAUGUST 20, 2020SCIENCE NEWSShe tested how fast her gel formula would degrade in the sun and wind by applying the gel to a non-bee drone.
FOR TEENS, BIG PROBLEMS MAY LEAD TO MEANINGFUL RESEARCHCAROLYN WILKEJULY 28, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSYou would degrade yourself to my level; and, God knows, mine is a very low level.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME II (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSMisfortune cannot degrade a man, unless he be intrinsically mean; it rather elevates him.
MY TEN YEARS' IMPRISONMENTSILVIO PELLICOLet such men become drivers to stage-coaches, but let them not degrade the name of travellers by assuming it to themselves.
TRAVELS THROUGH THE SOUTH OF FRANCE AND THE INTERIOR OF PROVINCES OF PROVENCE AND LANGUEDOC IN THE YEARS 1807 AND 1808LT-COL. PINKNEYBut men also humiliate us, degrade us, jeer at, ridicule the miseries that they and their society entail upon us.
THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUSMONA CAIRDIt flashed by like some grand procession of the stage, if one can so degrade its power and reality by the comparison.
THE BRITISH EXPEDITION TO THE CRIMEAWILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELLWORDS RELATED TO DEGRADE
- abase
- abash
- bemean
- break
- bring down
- cast down
- chagrin
- chasten
- confound
- confuse
- crush
- cut to the quick
- debase
- deflate
- degrade
- demean
- demote
- deny
- discomfit
- discredit
- disgrace
- embarrass
- hide
- humiliate
- lower
- make eat dirt
- make one feel small
- mortify
- overcome
- pop one's balloon
- pull down
- put away
- put one away
- put to shame
- reduce
- silence
- sink
- snub
- squash
- squelch
- strike dumb
- subdue
- take down
- take down a peg
- upset
- abase
- abash
- base
- bemean
- blister
- break
- bring down
- bring low
- cast down
- chagrin
- chasten
- confound
- confuse
- conquer
- crush
- cut down to size
- debase
- degrade
- demean
- denigrate
- deny
- depress
- discomfit
- discountenance
- disgrace
- dishonor
- downplay
- humble
- lower
- make a fool of
- make ashamed
- mortify
- pan
- play down
- put out of countenance
- put to shame
- rip
- run down
- shame
- shoot down
- slam
- smear
- snub
- squash
- subdue
- take down
- take down a peg
- tear down
- vanquish
- wither
- abases
- abashes
- bases
- bemeans
- blisters
- breaks
- brings down
- brings low
- casts down
- chagrins
- chastens
- confounds
- confuses
- conquers
- crushes
- cuts down to size
- debases
- degrades
- demeans
- denies
- denigrates
- depresses
- discomfits
- discountenances
- disgraces
- dishonors
- downplays
- humbles
- lowers
- makes a fool of
- makes ashamed
- mortifies
- pans
- plays down
- puts out of countenance
- puts to shame
- rips
- runs down
- shames
- shoots down
- slams
- smears
- snubs
- squashes
- subdues
- takes down
- takes down a peg
- tears down
- vanquishes
- withers
- abate
- abridge
- amputate
- attenuate
- become smaller
- clip
- close
- contract
- crop
- curtail
- cut
- cut back
- de-escalate
- decline
- decrease
- degrade
- die down
- dilute
- diminish
- downsize
- drain
- dwindle
- ease
- erode
- grow less
- impair
- lighten
- minify
- minimize
- mitigate
- moderate
- narrow
- roll back
- shrink
- slack up
- slacken
- slow down
- soft pedal
- take the bite out
- take the edge off
- take the sting out
- taper
- taper off
- thin
- truncate
- weaken
- wind down
- bore
- brought down
- capsized
- cast down
- caved in
- couched
- declined
- demitted
- depressed
- descended
- dipped
- disappeared
- drilled
- drooped
- dropped
- drove
- drowned
- dug
- ebbed
- engulfed
- excavated
- fell
- floundered
- forced down
- foundered
- immersed
- lay
- let down
- lowered
- overturned
- overwhelmed
- plummeted
- plunged
- put down
- rammed
- ran
- regressed
- sagged
- scuttled
- set
- settled
- shipwrecked
- sloped
- slumped
- stabbed
- stooped
- stuck
- submerged
- subsided
- swamped
- thrust
- tip over
- touch bottom
- went down
- went to the bottom
- wrecked
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