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  • English Word Deglutinated Definition of Deglutinate
  • English Word Deglutinating Definition of Deglutinate
  • English Word Deglutination Definition The act of ungluing.
  • English Word Deglutition Definition The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.
  • English Word Deglutitious Definition Pertaining to deglutition.
  • English Word Deglutitory Definition Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition.
  • English Word Degradation Definition The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop.
  • English Word Degradation Definition The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement.
  • English Word Degradation Definition Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration.
  • English Word Degradation Definition A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc.
  • English Word Degradation Definition The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
  • English Word Degradation Definition Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole.
  • English Word Degrade Definition To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer.
  • English Word Degrade Definition To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man.
  • English Word Degrade Definition To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
  • English Word Degrade Definition To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera.
  • English Word Degraded Definition of Degrade
  • English Word Degraded Definition Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base.
  • English Word Degraded Definition Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
  • English Word Degraded Definition Having steps; -- said of a cross each of whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center; -- termed also on degrees.
  • English Word Degradement Definition Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.
  • English Word Degrading Definition of Degrade
  • English Word Degradingly Definition In a degrading manner.
  • English Word Degravation Definition The act of making heavy.
  • English Word Degree Definition A step, stair, or staircase.
  • English Word Degree Definition One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison.
  • English Word Degree Definition The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position.
  • English Word Degree Definition Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree.
  • English Word Degree Definition Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc.
  • English Word Degree Definition A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree.