DEGRADATION
\dɪɡɹɐdˈe͡ɪʃən], \dɪɡɹɐdˈeɪʃən], \d_ɪ_ɡ_ɹ_ɐ_d_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of DEGRADATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement.
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A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc.
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The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
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Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole.
By Oddity Software
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The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement.
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A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc.
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The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
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Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [French] Act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation; abasement; humiliation;—state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; disgrace;—reduction of strength, efficacy, or value;—a gradual wearing down or wasting;—deposition; decline; diminution.
By Thomas Sheridan
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