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A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.
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A downhill gradient on a road or railway.
- [...] 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.
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A reduction in quality; a descent towards an inferior state.
- Near-synonyms: degradation, worsening, deterioration
downgrade
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To place lower in position.
- The stock was downgraded from ‘buy’ to ‘sell’.
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To reduce in complexity, or remove unnecessary parts; to dumb down.
- 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
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To disparage.transitive
- 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".
- Without downgrading my friends in the Building Trades, driving a nail or sawing a board is relatively simple.
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to reduce the official estimate of a storm's intensity.
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To revert software back to an older version.