Degrade vs Devalue - What's the difference?
degrade | devalue |
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 lower or remove the value of something.
To lose value; to depreciate.
As verbs the difference between degrade and devalue
is that degrade is to lower in value or social position while devalue is to lower or remove the value of something.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 .
