1[transitiveT]INSULT to treat someone without respect and make them lose respect for themselves 贬低〔某人〕,羞辱〔某人〕
a movie that degrades women
贬损女性的影片
degrade yourself (by doing something)
How can you degrade yourself by writing such trash?
你怎么能写这种垃圾作品来自贬身份呢?
2[transitiveT]WORSE to make a situation or the condition of something worse 使〔局面或情况〕恶化
The dolphin’s habitat is being rapidly degraded.
海豚的栖息环境正遭到越发严重的破坏。
3.[intransitiveI, transitiveT]HC technical if a substance, chemical etc degrades, or if something degrades it, it changes to a simpler form (使)〔物质、化学品等〕分解,降解
degrade yourself (by doing something)• But when a Duchessdescends to mingle with a person of obscurebirth, does she not then degrade herself?• Out of some sort of desperation she seemed to want to degrade herself.• Leapor sees such a woman degrading herself as a miser: Then let her quit Extravagance and Play.• You despise me - so aren't you degrading yourself by having anything to do with me?