Definition of degraded
1 : reduced far below ordinary standards of civilized life and conduct
2 : characterized by degeneration of structure or function
degradedly
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Examples of degraded in a Sentence
many observers deplored the fact that the city's festivities for Mardi Gras had become a degraded, drunken celebration
Recent Examples of degraded from the Web
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His company dredged 1.32 million cubic yards of sediment from the Mississippi River and piled it into the degraded marsh at Jesuit Bend.
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Certainly, this past season was a disaster even by the Knicks’ degraded standards.
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The aquifer faces threats of degraded water quality and reduced water quantity.
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These new episodes are still homage-heavy, especially the opening scene, with its degraded film stock and nods to a grind-house/Hal Needham aesthetic.
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Thousands who gave the last full measure of the devotion, to borrow the words of President Abraham Lincoln, had found themselves in a degraded final resting place at Poplar Grove.
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Take the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, under which the EPA seeks to work with the states and Canada to restore degraded lakeshore areas.
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The report calls for restoring many degraded Sierra meadows to act as sponges to store cold water that would trickle into streams in summer and fall when fish struggle to find enough.
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In all, the district has 474,000 square feet of degraded lead paint inside its schools -- enough to cover all floors of Powell's City of Books, which takes up an entire city block, seven times.
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