Is it a real word? I heard someone use it at work, I think, in place of “decrement,” but I often hear made up words at work–people like to sound smart. 
I’ve checked dictionary.com and webster.com, and neither recognize it. Google returns examples of the word in use. Based on the contexts of the search results it sounds like “degregate” may be used in place of “degrade” or “denigrate.”
Any ideas?
It must be one of those recuntrative words.
De-greg-ate is what I do when I vomit.
Degregate is a perfectly cromulent word.
Not according to any dictionary i have seen.
I have heard it used before.
I’m thinking of it as a reverse of ‘integrate’.
I think you’re right on “denigrate”.
Unless, of course, you’re talking about hazardous material: DEGREGATE – The ability of a chemical to break down the protective barrier on a molecular level.
No, that would be “etargetni”
de-gre-gate: The way de-grey-mare trots. Just ain’t what she used to be.
R, D, R R
It rhymes with segregate.
Maybe that’s what they meant.
You don’t know the word degregate?
You pimholes.
Oh stop trying to embiggen yourself.
nice switch from blackadder to simpsons, or am I wrong?
Both Simpsons I believe.
It appears so, cromulent is not in the blackadder episode I suspected. Where does it appear in the simpsons?
Pimhole is the only word I can remember from a wonderful sketch from an old Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie show.
I really must search Youtube for it.
I think it’s the one where they dig up Jebediah Springfield.
It goes something along the lines of: A noble heart embiggens the smallest mind.
And later someone, I think Lisa, complains that embiggens isn’t a real word to which the teacher replies that it’s a ‘perfectly cromulent word’.
You watch too much TV.
Yeah, embiggen and cromulent are both from the Simpsons…I hadn’t heard pimhole before though.
You read too many comics.
It’s from a sketch where they decide to make up their own words to get around censorship.
I’m going back around twenty years here.
But I still use pimhole quite often.