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Definitions for degraded
dɪˈgreɪ dɪdde·grad·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fastadjective

    unrestrained by convention or morality

    "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"

  2. debased, devalued, degradedadjective

    lowered in value

    "the dollar is low"; "a debased currency"

Wiktionary

  1. degradedadjective

    Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.

    The Netherlands were reduced practically to a very degraded condition. uE000187236uE001 Motley.

  2. degradedadjective

    Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.

    Some families of plants are degraded dicotyledons. uE000187237uE001 Dana.

  3. degradedadjective

    Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the centre; on degrees.

  4. Etymology: See degrade and compare degré step.

ChatGPT

  1. degraded

    Degraded generally refers to a condition or quality that has been lowered or diminished. It can refer to something that has deteriorated, worn out, or been damaged. This term can be applied to various contexts such as objects, environments, or moral standards that have declined from an original or desired state.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Degraded

    of Degrade

  2. Degradedadjective

    reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base

  3. Degradedadjective

    having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts

  4. Degradedadjective

    having steps; -- said of a cross each of whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center; -- termed also on degrees

  5. Etymology: [Cf. F. degr step.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. degraded

    In heraldry, means placed upon steps or degrees.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of degraded in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of degraded in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of degraded in a Sentence

  1. Doug Madory:

    For the past 24 hours North Korea's connectivity to the outside world has been progressively getting degraded to the point now that they are totally offline, there's either a benign explanation - their routers are perhaps having a software glitch; that’s possible. It also seems possible that somebody can be directing some sort of an attack against them and they're having trouble staying online.

  2. Rados Djurovic:

    These practices are taking more dramatic and inhumane shapes, where in addition to beatings, people are being ... degraded and treated as non-humans, and of course are illegally pushed back into Serbia.

  3. Jennifer Nuzzo:

    I think the situation has degraded much much further.

  4. Kamal Nawash:

    In addition to degrading and objectifying women, posing naked may actually be counterproductive to supporting women’s rights. Those opposing equality for women, will just point to the naked women and argue to the parents of the nation that it is their traditional values that prevent their daughters from being degraded and objectified as women, this will be a powerful argument because most parents do not want to see their daughters posing naked.

  5. Doug Madory:

    All I can say is that in the last 24 hours, their communications have been degraded to a point where they are unable to communicate. They have disappeared from the global Internet presently.

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