Definition of "degrader" []

• One who, or that which, degrades. (noun)

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• "You'd have to be a moron not to see it as calculating even if Bill Clinton wasn't a proven serial philanderer and degrader of women."
• "Toward the end of chapter 15, on plants, the authors note that some two-thirds of the radiation impinging on a tree is ultimately spent pumping water into the surrounding air evapotranspiration and conclude, unpoetically, that “a tree is best understood as a giant degrader of solar energy.”"
• "Whilst women suffer in every respect from the influence of alcohol as a degrader of their men, most of all do they and the race suffer through the action of alcohol upon the racial instinct."