dégrader
French, verb/de.ɡʁa.de/
dégrader is spelled D-É-G-R-A-D-E-R (8 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written French, the 17,650th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dégrader is a French verb meaning “to demote (lower someone's position in an organisation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dépouiller, destituer quelqu’un d’une manière infamante de son grade, de sa dignité, de son emploi, etc”.
What does dégrader mean in English?
verb
- 1
to demote (lower someone's position in an organisation)
- 2
to degrade (lessen someone's reputation)
- 3
to deface (vandalise)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dépouiller, destituer quelqu’un d’une manière infamante de son grade, de sa dignité, de son emploi, etc. 2. Avilir. 3. Perdre de son aptitude à fournir du travail, en parlant de toute forme d’énergie. 4. Détériorer ; endommager.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of dégrader
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dégradant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dégradé participle past
- dégrade first-person indicative present
- dégrades indicative present second-person
- dégradons first-person indicative plural
- dégradez indicative plural present
- dégradent indicative plural present
- dégradais first-person imperfect indicative
- dégradait imperfect indicative singular
- dégradions first-person imperfect indicative
- dégradiez imperfect indicative plural
- dégradaient imperfect indicative plural
- dégradai first-person historic indicative
- dégradas historic indicative past
- dégrada historic indicative past
- dégradâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dégrader?
- /de.ɡʁa.de/
- \de.ɡʁa.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dégrader
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dégrader in French?
dégrader appears 2.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).