Synonyms of the word

degrade

• v. (transitive) To lower in value or social position.
• v. (intransitive) To reduce in quality or purity.
• v. (transitive, geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.

abase

• v. (transitive, archaic) To lower physically or depress; to stoop; to throw or cast down.
• v. (transitive) To lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, so as to hurt feelings or cause pain; to…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lower in value, in particular as altering the content of alloys in coins.

aggravate

• v. To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to…
• v. To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate.
• v. To exasperate; to provoke, to irritate.

chagrin

• n. Distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc; vexation or…
• n. A type of leather or skin with a rough surface.
• v. (transitive) To bother or vex; to mortify.
• v. (intransitive) To be vexed or annoyed.

cheapen

• v. (transitive) to decrease the value of; to make cheap.
• v. (transitive) to make vulgar.
• v. (intransitive) to become cheaper.
• v. (obsolete) to bargain for, ask the price of.

demean

• v. To debase; to lower; to degrade.
• v. To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
• v. To mortify.
• v. To manage; to conduct; to treat.
• v. To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.
• n. (archaic) Management; treatment.
• n. (archaic) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
• n. demesne.
• n. resources; means.

disgrace

• n. The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
• n. The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy.
• n. Something which brings dishonor; the cause of shame or reproach; great discredit.
• n. (obsolete) An act of unkindness; a disfavor.
• v. To disrespect another; to put someone out of favor.

exacerbate

• v. (transitive) To make worse (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.); aggravate.

exasperate

• v. To frustrate, vex, provoke, or annoy; to make angry.
• adj. (obsolete) Exasperated; embittered.

humble

• adj. not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
• adj. Thinking lowly of oneself; claiming little for oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
• v. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.
• v. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiency of;…
• adj. hornless.

humiliate

• v. (transitive) To injure a person's dignity and self-respect.

mortify

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
• v. (obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
• v. To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
• v. (usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
• v. (obsolete) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
• v. (Scotland, law, historical) To grant in mortmain.

worsen

• v. (transitive) To make worse; to impair.
• v. (intransitive) To become worse; to get worse.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get the better of; to worst.