degraded

Unlike clear-cut areas, these degraded forests often fall through the cracks of national accounting systems and international policy frameworks.

The prosecution said the girls were abused, degraded and then "discarded" by the paedophiles, who worked either at the market or as taxi drivers.

“Those images are severely degraded in smoke conditions like that,” he said, leaving open the possibility that the fire was in west Altadena well before 5 a.m., as residents previously reported to The Times.

Keller said her husband was long aware of the issue, but it had now degraded the quality of their lives to the point that he was spurred to act.

"It's hard to understand how low we degraded common, regular people to a state of that much hunger and frenzy about food."