What is the difference between degrade and denigrate?
degrade | denigrate |
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.
To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
To treat as worthless; belittle, degrade or disparage.
(rare) To blacken.
In transitive terms the difference between degrade and denigrate
is that degrade is to lower in value or social position while denigrate is to treat as worthless; belittle, degrade or disparage.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 .