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n. The act or process of degrading.

n. The state of being degraded; degeneration.

n. A decline to a lower condition, quality, or level.

n. Geology A general lowering of the earth's surface by erosion or weathering.

n. Chemistry Decomposition of a compound by stages, exhibiting well-defined intermediate products.

n. Computer Science The state in which a computer operates when some of its memory or peripherals are not available.

n. The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop.

n. The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement.

n. Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration.

n. A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc.

n. A deleterious change in the chemical structure, physical properties or appearance of a material from natural or artificial exposure.

n. The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.

n. Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole.

n. The gradual breakdown of components of a material, as a result of a natural element, i.e.: heat, cold and wind.

n. The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution.

n. The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement.

n. Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration.

n. A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc.

n. The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.

n. Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole.

n. A reducing in rank; the act of depriving one of a degree of honor, of dignity, or of rank; deposition, removal, or dismissal from rank or office: as, the degradation of a general.

n. The state of being reduced from a higher to a lower grade of power, character, or estimation; degeneracy; debasement.

n. The act of sinking to a lower level in space.

n. Diminution or reduction, as of strength, value, altitude, or magnitude.

n. In painting, a lessening and obscuring of distant objects in a landscape, to give the effect of distance.

n. In geology, the reduction or wearing down of higher lands, rocks, strata, etc., by the action of water or other causes.

n. In biology, abortive structural development; retrograde metamorphosis, such as that witnessed in many parasites as a result of their parasitism.

n. In botany, a change consisting of abstraction, loss, abortion, or non-development of usual organs.

n. In heraldry, same as abatement.

n. In organic chemistry, the resolution of the molecule of a compound into other substances of smaller molecular weight.

n. a low or downcast state

n. changing to a lower state (a less respected state)

"Protein degradation is a major cause of ageing and can be the result of attacks on proteins by other molecules."

dissipation of energy   

differential degradation    degradation of energy   

decomposition   

biodegradation   

debasement    decline    reduction    abasement    diminution    baseness    disgrace    degeneration    deterioration    dishonor   

Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization    Confederation    Corp.    Croatian    Dalmatian    Desegregation   

humiliation    disgrace    poverty    wretchedness    oppression    injustice    corruption    hardship    destruction    shame