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How to pronounce “degrade”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of degrade with real speech in context.
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done so one of the ways things degrade
- Definition summary
- (transitive) To lower in value or social position.
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How to pronounce degrade
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done so one of the ways things degrade
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Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To lower in value or social position.
- (intransitive, ergative) To reduce in quality or purity.
- (transitive, geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
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