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"
• S: (v) degrade, cheapen (lower the grade of something; reduce its worth)
• direct troponym / full troponym
• S: (v) devalue, devaluate (remove the value from; deprive of its value)
• S: (v) demonetize, demonetise (deprive of value for payment) "demonetize a coin"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate (make worse) "This drug aggravates the pain"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• Somebody ----s something
• Something ----s something