Embase
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To lower; degrade; depress or hollow out.
To lower in value; debase; vitiate; deprave; impair.
To lower in nature, rank, or estimation; degrade.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
transitive verb.
To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate.
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verb.
Physically to
lower
.
verb.
To bring down or
lower
in position, status, etc.; to
degrade
,
humiliate
.
verb.
To
lower
the
value
of (a coin, commodity etc.); to
debase
(a coin) with
alloy
.
Word Usage
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Synonym
Words with the same meaning
debase
degrade
deteriorate