degrade

Now Obama promises to “degrade and destroy” the self-declared Islamic State (or ISIL, or ISIS).

U.S. warplanes have already flown more than 100 sorties to degrade ISIS ground forces, and many more bombs are on the way.

The plan to degrade al Qaeda enough so that U.S. forces can leave is already lagging behind schedule.

“Dioxin” is the dirtiest of dirty words and this designation, like the chemical itself, does not degrade.

Kenneth recognizes the terrible truths of our existence: that gun violence will continue to devastate and degrade everyone.

You would degrade yourself to my level; and, God knows, mine is a very low level.

Misfortune cannot degrade a man, unless he be intrinsically mean; it rather elevates him.

Let such men become drivers to stage-coaches, but let them not degrade the name of travellers by assuming it to themselves.

But men also humiliate us, degrade us, jeer at, ridicule the miseries that they and their society entail upon us.

It flashed by like some grand procession of the stage, if one can so degrade its power and reality by the comparison.