downgrade
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English
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[edit ]Pronunciation
[edit ]- IPA (key): (noun) /ˈdaʊnˌɡɹeɪd/
- IPA (key): (verb) /ˌdaʊnˈɡɹeɪd/
- Rhymes: (verb) -eɪd
- Hyphenation: down‧grade
Noun
[edit ]downgrade (plural downgrades )
- A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.
- A downhill gradient on a road or railway.
- 1960 April, "English Electric diesels for the Sudan Railways", in Trains Illustrated, page 218:
- [...] dynamic braking is fitted to the 99-ton, 55 ft.-long locomotives to help control these otherwise vacuum-braked trains on the long, continuous downgrades encountered on the coastal route.
- A reduction in quality; a descent towards an inferior state.
- Coordinate term: comedown
- Near-synonyms: degradation , worsening , deterioration
Derived terms
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[edit ]Translations
- Polish: degradacja (pl) f, upadek (pl) m
- Spanish: desmejora (es) f, desmejoramiento (es) m, degradación (es) f, empeoramiento (es) m
Verb
[edit ]downgrade (third-person singular simple present downgrades , present participle downgrading , simple past and past participle downgraded )
- To place lower in position.
- 2025 February 5, Philip Haigh, "Where track and train integration will be put to the test", in RAIL, number 1028, page 51:
- Basingstoke-Exeter will test this. From Salisbury westwards, it's largely single-track since British Rail downgraded it in 1967. There's a ten-mile loop between Templecombe and Yeovil, as well as shorter loops at Chard, Axminster and Honiton.
- To reduce in complexity, or remove unnecessary parts; to dumb down.
- 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, "Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe ", in The A.V. Club [1] , archived from the original on 6 August 2020:
- More significantly, rigid deference to [Justin] Bieber’s still-young core fan base keeps things resolutely PG, with any acknowledgement of sex either couched in vague "touch your body" workarounds or downgraded to desirous hand-holding and eye-gazing.
- (transitive ) To disparage.
- Synonyms: degrade , demote , defame , reduce ; see also Thesaurus:demean
- Coordinate terms: ruin , destroy
- 1978 April 29, Cindy Rizzo, "Unity of Divergence", in Gay Community News, page 4:
- We cannot afford to downgrade the lifestyles of other lesbians; we cannot afford to portray lesbians thinly as drunken and bothersome separatists who push their views on "work-within-the-movement" dykes".
- 1981, King Royer, Construction Manager in the 80's, page 278:
- Without downgrading my friends in the Building Trades, driving a nail or sawing a board is relatively simple.
- (meteorology ) to reduce the official estimate of a storm's intensity.
- (computing ) To revert software back to an older version.
- Synonyms: restore , revert , roll back ; see also Thesaurus:revert
Derived terms
[edit ]Translations
[edit ]To place lower in position
- Bulgarian: понижавам (bg) (ponižavam)
- French: rétrograder (fr)
- German: herabstufen (de) , herunterstufen (de)
- Greek: υποβαθμίζω (el) (ypovathmízo)
- Irish: íosghrádaigh
- Polish: degradować (pl) impf, zdegradować pf
- Russian: понижа́ть (ru) impf (ponižátʹ), пони́зить (ru) pf (ponízitʹ)
- Spanish: degradar (es) , desmejorar (es) , empeorar (es) , retrogradar (es)
- Swedish: nedgradera , nergradera
References
[edit ]- "downgrade", in Lexico , Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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