Degraded has 3 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all. | |
| 2. | He degraded himself by telling me lies. | |
| 3. | Drug addiction degraded many people. | |
| 4. | Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. | |
| 5. | Sixty-five percent of U.S. estuaries and coastal water bodies are moderately to severely degraded by excessive nutrient inputs, which lead to algal blooms and low-oxygen (hypoxic) waters that can kill fish and seagrass and reduce essential fish habitats. | |
| 6. | Climate change and ocean acidification can result in mass coral bleaching events, increased susceptibility to disease, slower growth and reproductive rates, and degraded reef structure. |