All drag down synonyms

verb drag down

• degrade — Something that degrades someone causes people to have less respect for them.
• upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
• disgrace — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
• dishonor — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
• cheapen — If something cheapens a person or thing, it lowers their reputation or position.
• demean — If you demean yourself, you do something which makes people have less respect for you.
• demoralize — If something demoralizes someone, it makes them lose so much confidence in what they are doing that they want to give up.
• humiliate — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
• dispose of — to give a tendency or inclination to; incline: His temperament disposed him to argue readily with people.
• get rid of — to clear, disencumber, or free of something objectionable (usually followed by of): I want to rid the house of mice. In my opinion, you'd be wise to rid yourself of the smoking habit.
• take out — the act of taking.
• clear away — When you clear things away or clear away, you put away the things that you have been using, especially for eating or cooking.
• discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
• dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
• grieve — to feel grief or great sorrow: She has grieved over his death for nearly three years.
• dispirit — to deprive of spirit, hope, enthusiasm, etc.; depress; discourage; dishearten.
• lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
• debauch — to lead into a life of depraved self-indulgence
• humble — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
• reduce — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
• cripple — A person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as a cripple.
• devalue — To devalue something means to cause it to be thought less impressive or less deserving of respect.
• abase — to humble or belittle (oneself, etc)
• corrupt — Someone who is corrupt behaves in a way that is morally wrong, especially by doing dishonest or illegal things in return for money or power.
• disable — make not work
• sink — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
• debilitate — If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
• deprave — Something that depraves someone makes them morally bad or evil.
• sap — Fortification. a deep, narrow trench constructed so as to form an approach to a besieged place or an enemy's position.
• devaluate — (transitive) To reduce in value.
• undermine — to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
• weaken — to make weak or weaker.
• efface — to wipe out; do away with; expunge: to efface one's unhappy memories.
• murder — Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)
• liquidate — to settle or pay (a debt): to liquidate a claim.
• obliterate — to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely.
• sterilize — to destroy microorganisms in or on, usually by bringing to a high temperature with steam, dry heat, or boiling liquid.
• purge — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
• drag — drag and drop
• scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
• assassinate — When someone important is assassinated, they are murdered as a political act.
• waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
• dash — If you dash somewhere, you run or go there quickly and suddenly.
• desolate — A desolate place is empty of people and lacking in comfort.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• down — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
• deject — to have a depressing effect on; dispirit; dishearten
• press — to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress.
• deplore — If you say that you deplore something, you think it is very wrong or immoral.
• oppress — to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.