DISGRACE vs DEGRADE: NOUN
- A state of dishonor
- A state of being out of favor; exclusion from favor, confidence, or trust: as, the minister retired from court in disgrace.
- A state of ignominy, dishonor, or shame; subjection to opprobrium.
- A cause of shame or reproach; that which dishonors: as, honest poverty is no disgrace.
- Want of grace of person or mind; illfavoredness; ungracious condition or character.
- An act of unkindness; an ill turn.
- Synonyms and Disgrace, Dishonor, etc. (see odium), discredit, ignominy, infamy, disrepute, reproach, contempt, opprobrium, obloquy.
- Scandal, blot.
- The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
- That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit.
- An act of unkindness; a disfavor.
- One that brings disfavor or discredit.
- The condition of being strongly and generally disapproved.
- Loss of honor, respect, or reputation; shame.
- The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy.
- N/A
DISGRACE vs DEGRADE: VERB
- Reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
- Damage the reputation of
- To disrespect another; to put someone out of favor.
- Bring shame or dishonor upon
- Reduce the level of land, as by erosion
- Lower the grade of something; reduce its worth
- Reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
- To lower in value or social position.
- To reduce in quality or purity.
DISGRACE vs DEGRADE: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To lower in quality or value; make inferior or less valuable.
- To cause (an organic compound) to undergo degradation.
- To reduce in grade, rank, or status; demote.
- To lower or wear away by erosion or weathering.
- To fall to a lower rank or status.
- To undergo degradation; decompose.
- To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure.
- To lower in dignity; dishonor or disgrace: : debase.
DISGRACE vs DEGRADE: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To put out of favor; to dismiss with dishonor.
- To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation.
- To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile.
- To bring shame or dishonor on.
- To deprive of favor or good repute; treat with disfavor.
- 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.
- To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
DISGRACE vs DEGRADE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Synonyms and Debase, Degrade, etc. (see abase); to shame, mortify, dishonor; tarnish, blot, stain, sully. See list under debase.
- To revile; upbraid; heap reproaches upon.
- To treat or affect ignominiously; bring or cast shame or reproach upon; dishonor; put to shame.
- To put out of favor; dismiss with discredit.
- In thermodynamics, to convert from a form of greater to one of less availability: said of certain transformations of energy.
- To reduce from a higher to a lower rank, degree, or type. Specifically
- To deprive of any office or dignity; strip of honors: as, to degrade a general officer.
- To lower in character; cause to deteriorate; lessen the value or worth of; debase: as, drunkenness degrades a man to the level of a beast.
- In biology: To reduce in taxonomic rank; lower in the scale of classification: as, to degrade an order to the rank of a family.
- To reduce in complexity of structure or function; simplify morphologically or physiologically: as, an organism degraded by parasitic habit.
- In geology, to reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains or icebergs; wear down, as by the weather.
- In optics, to lower in position in the spectrum; increase the wave-length of (a ray of light), and hence diminish (its) refrangibility, as by the action of a fluorescent substance. See fluorescence.
- To diminish the strength, purity, size, etc., of.
- Synonyms and Debase, Disgrace, etc. (see abase); to dishonor, break, cashier, reduce to inferior rank. To lower, sink, impair, injure, pervert, pollute. See list under debase.
- In natural history, to degenerate in type; pass from a higher type of structure to a lower.
- To degenerate; become lower in character; deteriorate.
- In a university, to take, for some particular reason, a lower degree than one is entitled to, or to avoid taking a degree at the proper or usual time; descend from a higher to a lower degree.
- Lower the grade of something
- Reduce its worth
DISGRACE vs DEGRADE: RELATED WORDS
- Lamentable, Humiliation, Scandalous, Embarrassment, Travesty, Shameful, Attaint, Put down, Dishonour, Degrade, Discredit, Demean, Ignominy, Dishonor, Shame
- Alter, Disturb, Harm, Undermine, Weaken, Deteriorate, Impair, Diminish, Degradation, Decompose, Erode, Put down, Disgrace, Demean, Cheapen
DISGRACE vs DEGRADE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Pity, Insult, Regrettable, Affront, Lamentable, Humiliation, Scandalous, Embarrassment, Shameful, Put down, Dishonour, Discredit, Demean, Dishonor, Shame
- Alter, Disturb, Harm, Undermine, Weaken, Deteriorate, Impair, Diminish, Degradation, Decompose, Erode, Put down, Disgrace, Demean, Cheapen
DISGRACE vs DEGRADE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- This was a total disgrace for the administration.
- And what you just said is a disgrace.
- Rid of My Disgrace is powerful, healing medicine.
- Like Key with his Pony tail pulling disgrace.
- This is a disgrace to all common sense.
- You are a disgrace to the Black race!
- See that you do nothing to disgrace it.
- Ah I wofull man, what heavens hard disgrace.
- To be held in a state of disgrace.
- Flotsam and jetsam: No place for disgrace - 2014 This is a re-recording of the entire No place for disgrace album.
- ANT: Degrade, remove, relegate, dethrone, banish, deprive, divest.
- Use slang or colloquialisms will degrade your professional.
- WTPs demonstratedischarge does not degrade receiving water quality.
- Such redundant repairs waste bandwidth and degrade throughput.
- Otherwise, cellular enzymes may rapidly degrade the DNA.
- Vilify, to make vile, to debase, to degrade; to defame, to traduce, to attempt to degrade by slander.
- As we degrade the planet we degrade ourselves and as we degrade ourselves we degrade the planet.
- MSTP can degrade to RSTP, just as they can degrade to STP.
- Filters degrade over time, light emitting diodes tend not to degrade over time.
- Proteolytic enzymes are those that degrade protein, amylolytic enzymes degrade carbohydrates, and Iypolytic enzymes degrade fats.
DISGRACE vs DEGRADE: QUESTIONS
- Is it a disgrace what Samsung has done with MirrorLink?
- What makes Coetzee's The New Yorker disgrace so good?
- Did Fox News condemn the Capitol riot as a disgrace?
- What is an example of disgrace in the Great Gatsby?
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- Is it a disgrace for Pennsylvania and Allied Universal?
- Who brought disgrace to Australian cricket over ball tampering?
- What are some famous quotations from Coetzee's disgrace?
- What does dismissal with disgrace mean in the military?
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