Clues for the word "DEGRADE"
We've had 22 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 54 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on December 16, 2025.
Definition of degrade
- v. t. - To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer.
- v. t. - To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man.
- v. t. - To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
- v. i. - To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera.
Referring Clues
- Lower in quality
- Put down
- Lower in stature
- Lower
- Abase
- Wear down
- Lower in esteem
- Humiliate
- Reduce in worth
- Demean
- Debase
- Deprive of dignity
- Reduce in status or rank
- Gradually moved back claiming a sapper is lower in rank
- A number agreed to correction, being humble
- Lower with awful dread, for example
- Leading doctor agreed being wrong causes dishonour
- Lower graduate into river
- Disgrace ex-student diving into river
- Cheapen to make daughter, say, awfully dear
- Belittle qualification endlessly receiving publicity
- Break down chemically
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - December 16, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 13, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 15, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 12, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 06, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 27, 2024
- Your Life Choices - March 31, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - March 26, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - January 21, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 06, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - October 17, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - July 03, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - June 13, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - June 02, 2023
- Your Life Choices - May 30, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - January 31, 2023
- Your Life Choices - January 19, 2023
- Your Life Choices - January 10, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - November 17, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 10, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - October 05, 2022
- LA Times - September 09, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - August 17, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - July 31, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - June 23, 2022
- Your Life Choices - August 09, 2017
- New Zealand Herald - July 14, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - July 09, 2017
- New Zealand Herald - June 24, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - February 13, 2017
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