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Diminished in value; dishonored; degraded. [R.] Shak.

A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.

To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken. This doth nothing diminish their opinion. Robynson (More's Utopia). I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. Ezek. xxix. 15. O thou . . . at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads. Milton.…

To debase or degrade. [Obs.] Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself. B. Jonson.

To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade. An unworthy behavior degrades and disennobles a man. Guardian.

To degrade. [Obs.] Foxe.

To degrade; to reduce in rank. [Obs.] Tyndale.

To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage. [Obs.] Alas! that any of my nation Should ever so foul disparaged be. Chaucer.

To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade. Displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed. Burke.

To degrade from rank. [Obs.]

To reduce to a lower rating or rank; to degrade. Marryat.

To deprive of worth; to degrade. [Obs.] Feltham.

To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate. [Obs.] Embased the valleys, and embossed the hills. Sylvester. Alloy in coin of gold . . . may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. Bacon. Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase d…

To lower or degrade; to detract from. [Obs.] Who can extenuate thee Milton.

To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. Heb. iv. 11.

Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.

he realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. C. Kingsley. To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.

A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.

One of a degraded and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts.

To degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal. And mixed with bestial slime, This essence to incarnate and imbrute. Milton.