Verb

• S: (v) degrade (reduce the level of land, as by erosion)
• antonym
• sentence frame
• Something ----s
• Somebody ----s something
• S: (v) take down, degrade, disgrace, demean, put down (reduce in worth or character, usually verbally) "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• S: (v) reduce (lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation) "She reduced her niece to a servant"
• S: (v) dehumanize, dehumanise (deprive of human qualities) "Life in poverty has dehumanized them"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase (cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of) "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) degrade, cheapen (lower the grade of something; reduce its worth)