dégradation, n.f., degradation; (mil.) cashiering, drumming out; damage, dilapidation; (jur.) waste; (paint.) diminution of light and shade.
dégrader, v.a., to debase, to degrade, to deface, to strip; (paint.) to diminish the light and shade; to damage, to dilapidate; (mil.) to cashier, to drum out. — un bois, une maison; to damage a wood, a house. Le temps a dégradé ce monument; time has defaced that monument.
se dégrader, v.r., to degrade, to debase, to disgrace one’s self; to become damaged, defaced, dilapidated; (jur.) to waste.
dégrafer, v.a., to unclasp, to unhook.
se dégrafer, v.r., to become unhooked, unfastened (of garments); to unbutton, unhook, unfasten one’s clothes.
dégraissage or dégraissement, n.m., cleaning, scouring.
dégraisser, v.a., to scour, to remove greasy stains; to fleece any one; to impoverish land, to carry off the soil; (carp.) to beard, to thin; (cook.) to remove fat. — un bouillon; to skim the fat off broth. — un habit; to clean a coat. La poudre dégraisse les cheveux; powder cleans the hair. Terre à —; fuller’s earth. Les ravines dégraissent les terres; torrents impoverish land (by carrying off the soil).
dégraisseur, n.m., scourer, cleaner.
dégraissis, n.m., scourings.
dégraissoir, n.m., scraper.