Degrade vs Belittling - What's the difference?
degrade | belittling |
To lower in value or social position.
* Palfrey
To reduce in quality or purity.
(geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
belittlement
* 1988 , Dennis Marcellino, Sweeping it under the drug (page 123)
As verbs the difference between degrade and belittling
is that degrade is while belittling is .As a noun belittling is
belittlement.degrade
English
Verb
(degrad)- Fred degrades himself by his behaviour.
- Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar.
- The DNA sample has degraded .
Derived terms
* degradationbelittling
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- And usually this manifests as them trying to prove their parent's criticism's and belittlings wrong.