DOWNGRADE
downgrade
Noun
- A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.
Verb
- To place lower in position.
- The stock was downgraded from 'buy' to 'sell'.
- To 'dumb down', reduce in complexity, or remove unnecessary parts.
- to reduce the official estimate of a storm's intensity.
- To revert software back to an older version.
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