degrading

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈɡɹeɪdɪŋ(ɡ)/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪdɪŋ

Verb

degrading

  1. present participle and gerund of degrade

Adjective

degrading (comparative more degrading, superlative most degrading)

  1. Causing or likely to cause someone to feel degraded.
    Retrieving my dropped possessions from the mud was a degrading experience.

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Noun

degrading (plural degradings)

  1. An act or process of degradation.

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