All 5 Uses

degrade
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
(Edited)

Once, driven to his breaking point by a guard jabbing him, Louie yanked the stick from the guard's hands. He knew he might get killed for it, but under this unceasing degradation, something was happening to him. His will to live, resilient through all of the trials on the raft, was beginning to fray.
p. 182.7 *

degradation = reduction of human dignity
In places like Kwajalein, degradation could be as lethal as a bullet.
p. 183.5

degradation = reduction in dignity
The work was nauseating and degrading, and when heavy rains came, the waste oozed out of the cesspits and back into camp.
p. 241.9

degrading = reducing dignity
And in a place predicated on degradation, stealing from the enemy won back the men's dignity.
p. 244.9

degradation = reduction in dignity
In prison camp, Watanabe had forced him to live in incomprehensible degradation and violence.
p. 379.6

degradation = reduced dignity

Definitions:

(1) (degrade as in: her comments were degrading)
to humiliate or treat with disrespect
(2) (degrade as in: degraded the quality)
to decrease the quality or value of something
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)