English-Spanish translations for degrade

• degradar
  Lamentablemente, los regímenes de Libia y Egipto utilizan la violencia para intimidar y degradar a las mujeres, haciéndolas más vulnerables. Unfortunately, the regimes in Libya and Egypt use violence as a way to intimidate and degrade women, making them more vulnerable.
  El problema es que esas mismas técnicas pueden utilizarse también para degradar la calidad del servicio hasta niveles inaceptablemente bajos. The problem is that the same techniques could be utilised to degrade the quality of service to unacceptably low levels.
  La persona se degradará a material biológico y el cuerpo humano se entregará a la comercialización. The human race will be degraded to mere biological material and the human body to a marketable commodity.
• erosionar

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