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noun /ˌdɛɡrə'deʃən/
1
an experience or situation that makes you feel ashamed and angry.
the act of treating someone or something poorly and without respect.
a situation in which sb has lost all self-respect and the respect of other people.
when people are made to feel they have no value.
a situation or condition that makes someone feel ashamed and makes people lose respect for them.
You use degradation to refer to a situation, condition, or experience which you consider shameful and disgusting, especially one which involves poverty or immorality.
a life of poverty and degradation.
the degradation of women.
He was forced to live a life of degradation. [=a life in which he suffered and was treated very poorly]
He was forced to suffer the degradations [=indignities] of poverty and abuse.
the degradation of being sent to prison.
the misery and degradation of prison life. [misery = noun, /'mɪzəri/, 1). great suffering that is caused for example by being very poor or very sick. 2). great unhappiness]
the misery and degradation of extreme poverty.
They were sickened by the scenes of misery and degradation they found.
She described the degradations she had been forced to suffer.
2
the process by which something changes to a worse condition.
the act or process of damaging or ruining something.
the process of sth being damaged or made worse.
when the beauty or quality of something is destroyed or spoilt.
the process of changing into a worse condition.
Degradation is the process of something becoming worse or weaker, or being made worse or weaker.
The degradation of land or of the environment is the process of its becoming damaged and poorer, for example because of the effects of pollution, industry, and modern agricultural methods.[TECHNICAL]
In science, the degradation of a substance is the process of its breaking down into its separate parts or elements.[TECHNICAL]
degradation of the environment.
There has been a slight degradation [=decline] in the car's performance.
environmental degradation.
As in the past, to the degradation of democracy, the debate again turned into a screaming match.
There are serious problems of land degradation in some arid zones. [arid = adjective, /'ærɪd/, 1). arid land or an arid climate is very dry because it has very little rain. 2). not having any new, interesting, or exciting features or qualities]
the accelerating degradation of our planet's natural environment.
the degradation of salicylic acid in plants. [salicylic acid = a bitter chemical found in some plants, used in aspirin (= a drug used for reducing pain and making your blood thinner)]