degrade

Verbs

(v) reduce the level of land, as by erosion
(v) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
- She tends to put down younger women colleagues
- His critics took him down after the lecture
demean, disgrace, take down, put down,
(v) lower the grade of something; reduce its worth cheapen,

Synonyms

demean disgrace take down put down cheapen

Antonyms

aggrade

Words of close approximity

degraded degrader