Definitions
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- noun One who, or that which,
degrades .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins)
Etymologies
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Examples
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You'd have to be a moron not to see it as calculating even if Bill Clinton wasn't a proven serial philanderer and degrader of women.
Poll: Hillary's Strongest Support Is Among Women 18-49 Years Old 2009
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Toward the end of chapter 15, on plants, the authors note that some two-thirds of the radiation impinging on a tree is ultimately spent pumping water into the surrounding air evapotranspiration and conclude, unpoetically, that “a tree is best understood as a giant degrader of solar energy.”
Nancy Pearcey: The Creationists' Miss Information - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Whilst women suffer in every respect from the influence of alcohol as a degrader of their men, most of all do they and the race suffer through the action of alcohol upon the racial instinct.
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The discriminating laws, all will concede, are degrading to those against whom they operate, and the degrader will be degraded also.
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Egoist, .. a poor deluded fool, the unresisting prey of his own passions, .. the besotted slave of a treacherous woman and the voluntary degrader of his own life!
Ardath Marie Corelli 1889
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Oh! Reuben, I dare not call thee brother; from the high pinacle, on which thy unstained honour places thee, canst thou stoop in mercy, to the degrader of thy race, to her whose folly is thy reproach; to a wretch whose bursting heart, will soon, very soon be laid open, with all its secret woes, before an offended God.
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D.B.; Seeger, M.; Zielinski, M.; Hofer, B.; Timmis, K.N.: Heterolo - gous expression of biphenyl dioxygenase-encoding genes from a gram-po - sitive broad-spectrum polychlorinated biphenyl degrader and characteriza - tion of chlorobiphenyl oxidation by the gene products.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows arab2000.forumpro.fr@slideshare.net(arab2000.forum 2009
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One does not have to be a great historian to remember that Cheney was a constant opponent and degrader of the CIA, but when it was convenient, Cheney was able to flip the script and become the defender of his former adversaries.
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Anyway, I don't guess that skipping the Premiere step for the sake of quality and speed is all that important, especially when the greatest quality degrader is YouTube's own reencode of the video.
VideoHelp.com Forum 2009
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IMHO is real performance degrader and C3d should come up with a better plan.
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