Reduced vs Degrade - What's the difference?
reduced | degrade |
(reduce)
Made smaller or less, resulting from reduction.
Reduced, lowered in price; on sale, at discount price
In cookery, of a sauce etc., made more concentrated.
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.
As verbs the difference between reduced and degrade
is that reduced is (reduce) while degrade is .As an adjective reduced
is made smaller or less, resulting from reduction.reduced
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- chicken served with a reduced red wine sauce.
degrade
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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 .