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degradement

noun

Etymology

From degrade + -ment.

Definitions

  1. Degradation.

    • […]places of degradement and potential abandonment, such as uranium mines.

  2. Removal or lowering of a person's rank or office.

    • threw away those episcopal ornaments wherein they were installed, as foolish and detestable; for so the words of Ridley at his degradement

  3. Degrading behaviour

    Degrading behaviour; insults or disrespect.

    • In Re Canada Post Corp. and C.U.P.W (Keith Jaworski), (Norman, unreported, March 19, 1984) a letter suspended the grievor "as a result of your actions of continual harassment and degradement of a fellow employee".

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for degradement. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA