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de•grad•ed
Pronunciation: (di-grā'did), [key]—
adj.
1. reduced in rank, position, reputation, etc.:
He felt degraded by the trivial tasks assigned to him.
2. reduced in quality or value; debased; vulgarized:
the degraded level of the modern novel. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.