Sekirov Dictionary

downgrade

/ˌdaʊnˈɡɹeɪd/

verb 5
/ˈdaʊnˌɡɹeɪd/ noun 3
forms 3

verb5

•
To place lower in position.
- The stock was downgraded from ‘buy’ to ‘sell’.
to reduce the official estimate of a storm's intensity.
To revert software back to an older version.
To reduce in complexity, or remove unnecessary parts; to dumb down.
•
To disparage.
- Without downgrading my friends in the Building Trades, driving a nail or sawing a board is relatively simple. — 1981

downgrade

/ˈdaʊnˌɡɹeɪd/

noun3

A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.
A reduction in quality; a descent towards an inferior state.
•
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. — 1960

forms

downgraded · downgrading · downgrades

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