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degradation

In geography, the lowering and flattening of land through erosion, especially by rivers. Degradation is also used to describe a reduction in the quality of usefulness of environmental resources such as vegetation or soil.



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"No," said the Depth of Degradation, "they have already fallen to me.
As an example of motiveless degradation of character, we have Menelaus in the Orestes: of character indecorous and inappropriate, the lament of Odysseus in the Scylla, and the speech of Melanippe: of inconsistency, the Iphigenia at Aulis,--for Iphigenia the suppliant in no way resembles her later self.
They lived like beasts in great squalid labor-ghettos, festering in misery and degradation.
 
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