degrade

Example Sentences

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Because the fluorescent material is evenly distributed throughout each particle, both whole plastics and the smaller fragments created as they degrade remain visible.

From Science Daily

Field, of Stanford, said scrapping this key scientific finding will also degrade U.S. standing on the global stage.

From Los Angeles Times

By modeling how radiation gradually destroys organic molecules, they calculated how much material would have existed before being degraded.

From Science Daily

Agency chief Mike Burgess said a "complex, challenging and changing security environment is becoming more dynamic, diverse and degraded".

From Barron's

But it was better, I figured, to have Ronnie a little peeved than to have me a whole lot damaged and degraded, just because I’d let my guard down for three and one-third seconds.

From Literature