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degrading

/dih-grey-ding/US // dɪˈgreɪ dɪŋ //UK // (dɪˈɡreɪdɪŋ) //

退化的,降级的,降级,退化

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : that degrades; debasing; humiliating: degrading submission.

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Examples

  • This helps protect the bottom of your outdoor fire pit from oxidizing and degrading.

  • But, ultimately, that does not change the reality that the Palestinians live in conditions that are demeaning and degrading.

  • A June 2020 report by PAX used satellite images to show how persistent pollution from a degrading oil facility has led to tens-of-thousands of barrels of oil flowing into canals and creeks and ending up in the 100-mile-long river.

  • As a scholar, Seidule could no longer make excuses for the violent and degrading slave culture of the South.

  • It’s hard to assess how Gerda felt about such degrading treatment.

  • This is a degrading and shameful state which no man or woman should be forced to endure.

  • It is not merely morally absurd to suggest that facts do not matter; as a person of color, it is insulting and degrading.

  • Maybe some light domination but nothing that can be considered degrading.

  • I could see what it had cost her, being put in that degrading place.

  • She calls shady allusions about her family “defamatory and degrading,” and “clearly anti-Semitic.”

  • In England the French ambassador had been the object of a degrading worship.

  • I could not help feeling how degrading it was to human beings to employ them as beasts of burden.

  • The priests of Egypt ruled by appealing to the fears of men, thus favoring a degrading superstition.

  • To converse with men of degraded minds is in itself degrading, at least if you possess not virtue very superior to mine.

  • They had imperfect and even degrading ideas of the gods, but acknowledged their existence and their power.