Degradation is an English word with synonyms like debasement or abasement. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Degradation meaning
- The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society
- The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement.
- Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration.
Synonyms of Degradation
Using Degradation
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society | The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement. | Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration.
- Useful related words include: debasement, change of state, abasement, abjection.
- In the example corpus, degradation often appears in combinations such as: degradation of, environmental degradation, the degradation.
Context around Degradation
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Degradation
- In this selection, "degradation" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, land, environmental, protein, refers, endocytosis and introduced stand out and add context to how "degradation" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 10 moderate degradation refers to and agriculture habitat degradation main habitat. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "degradation" sits close to words such as bully, curved and footing, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with degradation
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Protein degradation Protein degradation may take place intracellularly or extracellularly. (10 words)
The light blue color indicates partial degradation, while transparent water signifies complete degradation. (13 words)
Analysts found "no statistically significant difference in range degradation" between the two groups. (13 words)
Detection methods One of the earliest method for protein analysis has been Edman degradation (introduced in 1967) where a single peptide is subjected to multiple steps of chemical degradation to resolve its sequence. (33 words)
Woodland degradation and deforestation, due to population growth, urban expansion and lack of fuel, are major concerns citation and have led to erosion and land degradation which diminish the amount of fertile soil. (33 words)
Failure to tackle climate change and environmental degradation dominate the ranking of top risks facing the planet in the next decade, a World Economic Forum (WEF) survey of global risk specialists found. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
The light blue color indicates partial degradation, while transparent water signifies complete degradation.
As mentioned below in the section on degradation, endocytosis and degradation of the receptor bound to insulin is a main mechanism to end signaling.
Detection methods One of the earliest method for protein analysis has been Edman degradation (introduced in 1967) where a single peptide is subjected to multiple steps of chemical degradation to resolve its sequence.
Health and safety Degradation Degradation during service life, or after careless disposal, is a chemical change that drastically reduces the average molecular weight of the polyvinyl chloride polymer.
Photosensitized degradation, though, uses a species that absorbs radiation and transfers the energy to the cellulose acetate to start the degradation process.
Protein degradation Protein degradation may take place intracellularly or extracellularly.
Scorched land resulting from slash-and-burn agriculture Habitat degradation main Habitat degradation is currently the main anthropogenic cause of species extinctions.
Slight degradation refers to land where yield potential has been reduced by 10%, moderate degradation refers to a yield decrease from 10-50%.
Woodland degradation and deforestation, due to population growth, urban expansion and lack of fuel, are major concerns citation and have led to erosion and land degradation which diminish the amount of fertile soil.
According to the United Nations (UN), desertification is characterized by land degradation in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid regions, primarily from human activities and climatic fluctuations.
A healthy population of tigers is a sign of a healthy and thriving ecosystem while declining tiger populations can indicate problems such as habitat loss, degradation, or pollution.
Analysts found "no statistically significant difference in range degradation" between the two groups.
At the same time, an almost $1-billion project to conserve biodiversity and reduce land degradation in the Cockpit Country was shelved in late 2021.
But so far, I think it's fair to say that we've seen robust degradation in most of our patients at those levels.
But while cocoa production contributes to environmental degradation, the livelihoods of many farmers and their families depend on it.
Canada is also a signatory to the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forests and Land Use that commits to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by 2030.
Consider the policy prescriptions – deregulation helps private businesses operate with more freedom but also engenders risk taking behavior and environmental degradation.
Councilmember Kelly Ohlson took the hardest line, noting that “one person’s improvement is another person’s environmental degradation” and loss of wildlife habitat.
DC fast charging makes EV road trips practical, but owners are cautioned that frequent fast-charging can also cause battery degradation.
Failure to tackle climate change and environmental degradation dominate the ranking of top risks facing the planet in the next decade, a World Economic Forum (WEF) survey of global risk specialists found.
Common combinations with degradation
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- degradation of 50×
- environmental degradation 42×
- the degradation 30×
- degradation and 27×
- land degradation 16×
- and degradation 12×
- degradation in 12×
- degradation or 6×
- degradation that 6×
- habitat degradation 5×