Usually means: Breaks down into simpler substances.
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  1. degrades: Merriam-Webster
  2. degrades: Collins English Dictionary
  3. degrades: Vocabulary.com
  4. Degrades, degrades: Wordnik
  5. degrades: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. degrades: Wiktionary
  7. degrades: Dictionary.com
  8. degrades: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. degrades: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. degrades: Legal dictionary

(Note: See degrade as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (degrade)

verb:  (transitive) To lower in value or social position.
verb:  (intransitive, ergative) To reduce in quality or purity.
verb:  (transitive, geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
▸ Also see degrade


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