degradation

• It appears that VHF digital signals may be more succeptible to signal scatter and degradation, which is posing a problem for people relying solely on an indoor antenna.
• The students delved into learning about how future global warming could lead to long-term degradation or disappearance of many coral reefs by conducting a weeklong research project on coral bleaching at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS). —  Princeton University Top Stories
• But foreign zoologists say the epidemic of the small mammals is a symptom rather than the cause of grassland degradation, which is mainly the result of human behaviour such as the exploitation of water resources and over-grazing. —  Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
• "I hope," said he, "that there may be no man within the limits of these ten States who will participate in his own disgrace, degradation, and ruin: let them maintain their honor. —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
• The character and tendency of the Bill clearly is to compel me to relinquish office, or virtually abandon principles and provisions [in regard to the Bible in the Schools] which I have advocated as of great and vital importance, and become a party to my own personal humiliation and degradation--thus justly exposing myself to the suspicion and imputation of mean and mercenary conduct. —  The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada

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