degradation
nounDefinition of degradation
1
: the act or process of degrading
environmental degradation the gradual degradation of organic matter … nothing infuriates the female students more than the degradation of women that is associated with male sports …— Scott Stossel suffer the degradations of poverty and abuse
2a
: decline to a low, destitute, or demoralized state
shocked by the hopeless degradation of the "poor whites"— Edith Wharton Some houses are found spotless, others in a wretched degradation …— Paul Reyes
b
: moral or intellectual decadence : degeneration
educated him in the bestiality and degradation that war brings— Drew Middleton
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