Definitions for degrading

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degrading de·grad·ing

Spelling: [dih-grey-ding]

IPA: /dɪˈgreɪ dɪŋ/

Degrading is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 350 anagrams from letters in degrading (addegginr).

Definitions for degrading

adjective

1. that degrades; debasing; humiliating:

verb (used with object)

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, especially as a punishment:
4. to reduce in amount, strength, intensity, etc.
5. Physical Geography. to wear down by erosion, as hills. Compare aggrade.
6. Chemistry. to break down (a compound, especially an organic hydrocarbon).

verb (used without object)

1. to become degraded; weaken or worsen; deteriorate.
2. Chemistry. (especially of an organic hydrocarbon compound) to break down or decompose.

Origin of degrading

First recorded in 1675-85; degrade + -ing²

Examples for degrading

It would there have seemed purposeless, degrading and truly monstrous.

Then you are likely to give up your plan of punishing the man for defaming and degrading you?

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

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

To watch or to be watched, I know not which is most degrading; but I cannot think they are watching us.

It's degrading to compete with them … it's as degrading to compete for them.

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

This degrading humiliation of his rival must certainly be turned to account.

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

“It would be degrading but we would be degrateful,” assured Poehler.