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degrade

[dih-greyd, dee-greyd] / dɪˈgreɪd, diˈgreɪd /


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They are persistent pollutants, meaning they don't degrade easily and instead build up in the environment.

From BBC

Debating whether the England or South Africa loss was more degrading for Welsh rugby seems futile.

From BBC

This facilitates a process called autophagy, which occurs routinely in our cells: Damaged or unnecessary proteins are wrapped up in small membrane vesicles and safely degraded with enzymes - a natural recycling process, in effect.

From Science Daily

On top of a degraded infrastructure, it would have to contend with a shrunken military and new threats such as drones.

From The Wall Street Journal

Amazon recently sued Perplexity to prevent it from allowing its agent to make Amazon purchases for users, alleging that its AI agent had “degraded Amazon customers’ experience” and presented a cybersecurity risk to client data.

From Barron's