Adjective : He felt degraded by the trivial tasks assigned to him. ,the degraded level of the modern novel.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : He felt they were degrading him by making him report to the supervisor. ,degraded from director to assistant director.    From Dictionary.com. 

Does your head ache, or do you feel what I call degraded when someone in the office starts talking to you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enemies or Teachers] Reference

It would be a shame if vidders and other cultural critics were forced to work in degraded images.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

Yeah, John has definitely degraded from the second film, where he was the super-self-confident, Mr. Do-it-all kid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quick Thoughts on The Sarah Connor Chronicles] Reference

June 21st, 2006 at 7: 42 pm unbelievable says: approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Santorum: We Found the WMD] Reference

Analog telephone calls degraded with distance; in the 1940s Claude Shannon showed that by transmitting them digitally they could be received without errors.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEEDMAGAZINE.COM] Reference

By their decree, he was degraded from the rank of a praefect to the obscure condition of a plebeian, and ignominiously dragged by servile hands to the public prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

US Government admits global warming satellite sensors "degraded" - temperatures may be out by 10-15 degrees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prison Planet.com] Reference

He hoped to become an ally of the king of Egypt, and he asked would he desire to call a degraded man his friend?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

How do you define when a spring has become "degraded"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

Thus was O'Iwa "degraded" from her high estate as street-walker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

According to the folks at Typepad, their service has been "degraded" all day.    From Wordnik.com.  [October 2005] Reference

The idea was kept alive in a "degraded" form, while "higher" lit debated the morality of war.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeeLight:] Reference

There he finds that horses are the rulers, and a terrible kind of degraded human being their slaves and servants.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

And I knew, knew, she couldn't live out her life and be happy with the kind of degraded human spirit that is able to blackmail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time and Again]

In the interests of keeping consumers fully informed, it proposed calling the "degraded" version: "Windows reduced media edition".    From Wordnik.com.  [Microsoft misses a trick] Reference

Vague legal definitions may allow Indonesia to class forests as 'degraded' and 'rehabilitate' the land with palm trees and biofuel crops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indonesia eyeing $1bn climate aid to cut down forests, says Greenpeace] Reference

The inhabitants were called "degraded" and it was declared that there were almost as many grog shops and gambling dens as private houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert] Reference

Large growers in California and Arizona have "degraded" the original pristine organic products developed during the 1980s and 90s, he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laura Weiss: Is Locally Grown Food Going Corporate?] Reference

The old man is deposed, his name degraded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry] Reference

He said the incident has "degraded" him and his family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Most Viewed] Reference

APP classifies as "degraded" any forest it wants to cut down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

But that the college ideal should be "degraded" pained them most.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Wellesley] Reference

Im sorry, but sympathy is considerd to be a 'degraded' state of 'being'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lowell Sun Forum] Reference

In this sense, therefore, they are a "degraded" people, though by no fault of their own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Change in the Village] Reference

While sitting in on a training meeting the subject came up of "degraded" land navigation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kit Up] Reference

Estimates late last week were that its core military strength had been "degraded" by only 10-15\%.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

As that antiseptic military phrase has it, the capabilities of Palestinian armed groups were "degraded".    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

Those whose service was only "degraded" on Wednesday last week would get two weeks of plan charges free.    From Wordnik.com.  [iTnews Australia] Reference

Am I doing something wrong, or can I NOT add a drive to a "degraded" RAID in order to rebuild it up again?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussions: Message List - root]

It is cutting down only "degraded" forests, where removal of the trees is "necessary to make room for plantation fields".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Merten said the Haitian police force has been unavoidably "degraded" by the catastrophe and the U.N. force has suffered losses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Examiner California Headlines] Reference

He told friends he would rather kill himself than let his family be "degraded" by giving up the quality of life they were used to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Developers abandoned forest conversion, leaving nearly 25,000 square kilometers of Amazon "degraded", but not deforested, for the year.    From Wordnik.com.  [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference

He said the Taliban's abilities had been significantly "degraded" while the Afghan government was better able to "reach its own people".    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference

"degraded" by bearing children to a plebeian immigrant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate] Reference

I think we have severely degraded their command-and-control network.    From Wordnik.com.  ['This Ship Is A National Asset'] Reference