degrading

About 1.79 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of degrade
2. adjective Causing or likely to cause someone to feel degraded.

   Retrieving my dropped possessions from the mud was a degrading experience.

3. noun An act or process of degradation.

Similar words

harmful noxious dishonorable dishonourable corrupting debasing deterioration worsening degradation degradative

Often followed by

treatment to the and enzymes of in or punishment

Word family

degradingly