degrading

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• find: He told the jury he found the racial remarks degrading and depressing.

Modifies a noun

• treatment: They revealed images showing the degrading treatment of enslaved people.
• punishment: The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.
• enzyme: Plants contain proteins able to specifically inhibit certain wall degrading enzymes.
• act: As long as you don't mind all the degrading sex acts with strangers, of course.
• effect: The number 2 beef is the degrading effects from the chemicals applied to your face.
• performance: Work on high phase number induction motor drives with square wave excitations has demonstrated the practicality of reducing inverter losses without degrading machine performance.

Modifying Another Word

• rapidly: The soils in the mountains and highlands are rapidly degrading, while population pressure on the land is increasing just as rapidly.
• seriously: Further, the process and consequence of divorce is usually seriously degrading for men.
• thus: The result is burn in of the image into the screen itself, thus degrading viewing.
• so: Many of the jobs they have to do just to survive are so degrading.
• very: The whole physical aspect of being a soldier is very degrading.
• not: I'm not degrading real passion, but what we wanted was what we felt that we hadn't seen on-screen.

Used with adjective complement

• consider: Commerce was closed to the nobility, being considered socially degrading.
• see: Being a man is seen as uplifting yourself and being a woman is seen as degrading yourself.

Preposition: of

• protein: Manganese is involved in the building and degrading of proteins and nucleic acid, biogenic amine metabolism and is necessary for RNA chain initiation.

Preposition: for

• man: But, they concluded " it was degrading for a man " .