Debase

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  • transitive verb. To lower in character, quality, or value; degrade.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To reduce in quality or state; impair the purity, worth, or credit of; vitiate; adulterate: as, to debase gold or silver by alloy.
  • To lower or impair morally; degrade.
  • Synonyms Debase, Degrade, etc. (see abase), lower, deteriorate, dishonor, alloy, taint, corrupt, defile. See list under degrade.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
  • verb. To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. lower in value by increasing the base-metal content
  • verb. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
  • verb. corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
    • Word Usage
    "But now I fain debase myself to all who rail at thee:"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    devalue  
    Rhyme
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    Ace  Chase  Grace  Mace  Race  
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bad-ass  bull-roarer  cenote  college  coort  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abase  abase  abash  abuse  adulterate  
    verb-form
    debased  debases  debasing  
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