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degradation
/ ˌɛɡəˈɪʃə /
noun
- the act of degrading or the state of being degraded
- a state of degeneration, squalor, or poverty
- some act, constraint, etc, that is degrading
- the wearing down of the surface of rocks, cliffs, etc, by erosion, weathering, or some other process
- chem a breakdown of a molecule into atoms or smaller molecules
- physics an irreversible process in which the energy available to do work is decreased
- RC Church the permanent unfrocking of a priest
Other Word Forms
- r·岹tDz· adjective
- ۲·岹t adjective
- t·r·岹tDz adjective
- ԴDzd··岹tDz noun
- -r·岹tDz noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of degradation1
Example Sentences
His early years are spent in places ravaged by the Empire’s environmental degradation, first on Cassian’s destroyed planet of origin, then on his adoptive home world of Ferrix, a rocky salvaging base.
The project explores the tension between the human desire to connect with nature and ongoing environmental degradation.
Supreme Court ruling that upheld the definition of harm to encompass “significant habitat modification or degradation.”
The federal Clean Air and Clean Water acts, and similar state laws, likewise set out in law just how much degradation or destruction of the natural world corporations or others can get away with.
The resurfacing of the track in the first sector changed Suzuka this year from a circuit where tyre degradation was high, to one where it was low.
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