downgrade

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.
  2. 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.
  3. A reduction in quality; a descent towards an inferior state.
    — Near-synonyms: degradation, worsening, deterioration
动词 v.
  1. To place lower in position.
    — The stock was downgraded from ‘buy’ to ‘sell’.
  2. 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 eye-gazing.
  3. 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".
  4. to reduce the official estimate of a storm's intensity.
  5. To revert software back to an older version.

词形变化

downgrades plural downgrades present,singular,third-person downgrading participle,present downgraded participle,past downgraded past

词汇关系

衍生词
downgrade dance downgradable downgrader

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English down-
English grade
English downgrade
From down- + grade.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English down-
English grade
English downgrade
From down- + grade.
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