Past tense of degrade

Forms of degrade

Degraded in a sentence

• The DNA sample has degraded.
• Aged and degraded oil and grease can really gum up the works.From the entry works
• Or had the combination of Category 5 winds and overtourism left behind a degraded Eden?2024 December 2, Shannon Sims, “Chilling Out in Coral Bay, Where Even Flip-Flops Are Optional”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry backwatery
• We applied abliteration to Daredevil-8B to uncensor it, which also degraded the model's performance.2024 June 13, Maxime Labonne, “Uncensor any LLM with abliteration”, in Hugging Face Blog, retrieved 29 May 2025. From the entry abliteration
• The opposite of gentrification—call it shabbification—would emerge, as city housing stock becomes more and more degraded.2019 May 20, Howard Husock, “Legislating Shabbiness”, in City Journal, archived from the original on 20 May 2019. From the entry shabbification

Meaning of degrade

1. verb To lower in value or social position.
2. verb To reduce in quality or purity.
3. verb To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.

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Questions about the past tense of degrade

What is the past tense of degrade?

The past tense of degrade is degraded.

What is the past participle of degrade?

The past participle of degrade is degraded.

Is degrade a regular or irregular verb?

Degrade is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.