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[ verb ] rate lower; lower in value or esteem
Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)In all_of this extensive and expensive effort , the camera was downgraded to the status of recording instrument for art_work produced elsewhere by the actor or by the author . (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)In our present era of Science and Angst , the heart has been downgraded , to use one of our popular retrogressive verbs '' . |
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[ noun ] the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends
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