Synonym: abasement, abjection, debasement. Similar words: integration, graduation, gratification, radiation, foundation, trepidation, migration, recommendation. Meaning: [‚degrə'deɪʃn] n. 1. changing to a lower state (a less respected state) 2. a low or downcast state.
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(31) This point of near total degradation would be reached before 99.9995 percent of the typists had even seen it.
(32) The muted reaction is a measure of how deeply the degradation has seeped in.
(33) Those who no longer wish to disregard the insidious pollution and degradation of the environment are driven to despair.
(34) Declining productivity levels and environmental degradation have caused a widespread exodus of people to centres of economic activity.
(35) Here, drought is the crux of the matter and whether it is caused by or causes land degradation.
(36) The report speaks of extensive environmental degradation caused by high population growth, rapid urbanization and fast industrialization.
(37) The analysis must start therefore in areas which initially may seem remote from the physical processes which directly cause degradation and erosion.
(38) Inexorably, it pulls you into the folds of a miserable life of degradation, poverty,(http://sentencedict.com/degradation.html) and humiliation.
(39) Regional geochemical maps provide information on background levels of metals against which environmental degradation can be monitored.
(40) Some gains are clearly possible but not without high investments, accelerated deforestation, and land degradation.
(41) Nevertheless, ill-suited land-use and poor management can lead to environmental degradation with implications for present and future national economies.
(42) Hepatocyte function in disease may be perturbed by degradation of the normal matrix and its replacement with interstitial collagens by activated lipocytes.
(43) Behind the honeysuckle and the hollyhocks there was revealed a life of hitherto unimagined degradation.
(44) The stability of such a transcript may be jeopardized, hence its faster subsequent degradation.
(45) Ideas of childishness, linguistic degeneration, and confusion support the central theme of the degradation of essential ritual.
(46) The report notes that a combination of soil degradation and poor rainfall have increased food shortages and poverty.
(47) Some of the means used by the military to explain mechanical procedures are devastating in their banal degradation.
(48) But along the way Alice Thomas Ellis creates an ironic and vivid portrait of London, brilliantly catching its degradation and waste.
(49) We are also aware of the need to halt the environmental degradation that overproduction brings in its wake.
(50) In a few short but intense years we began to atone for centuries of environmental degradation.
(51) These problems include those associated with rural poverty, malnutrition, population changes and environmental degradation in developing nations.
(52) What is needed, perhaps, is a bit of disgraceful degradation of the sort that nobody can ignore.
(53) Many of these relations directly or indirectly affect land using decisions which lead to environmental degradation.
(54) Inner-city degradation requires the responsible confidence of local business to plan and invest in schemes of regeneration.
(55) This in turn led to increased degradation that has been exacerbated by the subsequent use of marginal lands for cultivation.
(56) In those turbulent times that produce skips, however, a slight degradation will be close to unnoticeable.
(57) The result is a membrane that is resistant to water, weather, ultra-violet degradation, fire and chemical attack.
(58) These factors plus preferential marketing arrangements and external financial support for development projects have all contributed to land degradation.
(59) Ideally, polluters would pay the true costs of the degradation they cause.
(60) I realized the data did not square with the theory that population growth causes resource depletion and environmental degradation.
More similar words: integration, graduation, gratification, radiation, foundation, trepidation, migration, recommendation, immigration, ratification, tradition, traditional, traditionally, contradiction, nation, radar, creation, location, negation, donation, national, education, relation, equation, zonation, operation, formation, allegation, violation, damnation.