LekhoriLekhoriA reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.
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.
A reduction in quality; a descent towards an inferior state.
To place lower in position.
The stock was downgraded from ‘buy’ to ‘sell’.
From down- + grade.
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To reduce in complexity, or remove unnecessary parts; to dumb down.
More significantly, rigid deference to [Justin] Bieber’s still-young core fan base keeps things resolutely PG, with any acknowledgement of sex either couched in vague “touch your body” workarounds or downgraded to desirous hand-holding and eye-gazing.
To disparage.
We cannot afford to downgrade the lifestyles of other lesbians; we cannot afford to portray lesbians thinly as drunken and bothersome separatists who push their views on "work-within-the-movement" dykes".