English-Portuguese translations for degrade

• degradar
  Lamentavelmente, os regimes da Líbia e do Egipto utilizam a violência como uma forma de intimidar e degradar as mulheres, tornando-as muito vulneráveis. Unfortunately, the regimes in Libya and Egypt use violence as a way to intimidate and degrade women, making them more vulnerable.
  Sabemos todos que uma parte substancial dos terrenos agrícolas não está a ser cultivada e está a degradar-se. We are all aware that a substantial amount of agricultural land is not being cultivated and is becoming degraded.
• desgastar
  Devemos, porém, utilizá-lo de forma tão criteriosa, flexível e parcimoniosa quanto possível, para não o desgastar nem banalizar. We must, however, only use this instrument with great care, in a very flexible manner, and preferably infrequently, so as to avoid it becoming degraded or undergoing a sui generis inflation.
• erodir

Definition of degrade

• To lower in value or social position
• To reduce in quality or purity
• To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down

Examples

• Fred degrades himself by his behaviour.
• The DNA sample has degraded.

Related words

• degraded
• biodegrade
• degrade oneself