degradare — meaning in English

English meaning

• abase verb To lower someone's position, rank or status in a way that hurts their feelings.
• break verb To separate something into pieces by force, often suddenly.
• degrade verb To lower someone's dignity or status; to humiliate.
• reduce verb To make something smaller in size, amount, or intensity.

Senses

degradare is used for these senses in English:

• abase (transitive) To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate. [from c. 1350–1470]
• break (transitive, military, most often in the, _, passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
• degrade (transitive) To lower in value or social position.
• degrade (intransitive, ergative) To reduce in quality or purity.

abase — full definition

1. verb To lower someone's position, rank or status in a way that hurts their feelings.
2. verb To physically push or bring something down, or to bend low.
3. verb To reduce the value of something, especially by changing the metal content of coins.

break — full definition

1. verb To separate something into pieces by force, often suddenly.
2. verb To stop working properly; to malfunction.
3. verb To fail to keep (a promise, rule, or law).
4. verb To interrupt or bring an end to something continuous.
5. noun A short pause or rest from an activity.

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