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degrading

verbadjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//dɪˈɡɹeɪdɪŋ(ɡ)//

Causing or likely to cause someone to feel degraded.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of degradepresent participle and gerund of degrade

adjective

  1. 1

    Causing or likely to cause someone to feel degraded.

    Retrieving my dropped possessions from the mud was a degrading experience.

noun

  1. 1

    An act or process of degradation.

Forms

plural
degradings
comparative
more degrading
superlative
most degrading
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).