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DEGRADE

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degrade verb A. tranzitiv

1. a degrada, a coborî; a dezonora.

2. a degrada, a scoate din grad / din slujbă (ca pedeapsă).

3. a înjosi, a deprecia.

4. (biol.) a degenera.

5. (fiz.) a degrada (energia).

6. (geol.) a dezintegra (rocile).

7. (arte) a degrada (culoarea).

degrade verb B. intranzitiv

1. (fig.) a cădea, a coborî;

2. (biol.) a degenera.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Thus they begin to accumulate, cause low level inflammation and release enzymes that can degrade the tissue.

(Scientists Find Natural Product That Slows Aging, Editura Global Info)

The fusion of phagosomes and lysosomes releases toxic products that kill most bacteria and degrade them into fragments.

(Phagocytosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

“To degrade YOU?” said Mr. Creakle.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

AGT I is an inactive 10 amino-acid peptide that is further degraded to produce angiotensin II by the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE).

(Angiotensin-converting Enzyme 2 Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

You may even think it degrading—for I see now your habits have been what the world calls refined: your tastes lean to the ideal, and your society has at least been amongst the educated; but I consider that no service degrades which can better our race.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

It's degrading.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

If Mrs Clay were a very beautiful woman, I grant you, it might be wrong to have her so much with me; not that anything in the world, I am sure, would induce my father to make a degrading match, but he might be rendered unhappy.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

There can be no doubt of your being a gentleman's daughter, and you must support your claim to that station by every thing within your own power, or there will be plenty of people who would take pleasure in degrading you.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

You would rob it of its simplicity by imaginary improvement! and this dear parlour in which our acquaintance first began, and in which so many happy hours have been since spent by us together, you would degrade to the condition of a common entrance, and every body would be eager to pass through the room which has hitherto contained within itself more real accommodation and comfort than any other apartment of the handsomest dimensions in the world could possibly afford.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

It's important to understand whether a landscape is undergoing a transition to degraded conditions, says D'Odorico, and whether a reduction in land-use intensity might lead to the recovery of vegetation in active dune fields.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

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