downgrade

About 0.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.
2. noun A downhill gradient on a road or railway.
3. noun A reduction in quality; a descent towards an inferior state.
4. verb To place lower in position.

   The stock was downgraded from ‘buy’ to ‘sell’.

5. verb To reduce in complexity, or remove unnecessary parts; to dumb down.
6. verb To disparage.
7. verb to reduce the official estimate of a storm's intensity.
8. verb To revert software back to an older version.

Similar words

demotion demote reduce minimize devalue lowering degradation degrade reduction decommissioning

Often followed by

the their and to of or its it a

Word family

downgraded downgrades downgrading