Another word for debase
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Verb
To lower in character or quality
- To lower the status, rank, or salary of:
- To minimize the importance, value, or reputation of:
- A descending slope, as in a road.
- To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner:
- To lower in quality or value; make inferior or less valuable:
- To lower in dignity; dishonor or disgrace:
- To reduce in grade, rank, or status; demote.
- To make cheap or cheaper.
- To lower in public estimation; debase or degrade:
- To become cheap or cheaper.
See also:To make impure or inferior by deceptively adding foreign substances
- To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly:
- To make more complex or refined:
- To mislead or corrupt (a person).
- A weight or mass that is supported:
- The overall force to which a structure is subjected in supporting a weight or mass or in resisting externally applied forces.
- Something that is carried, as by a vehicle, person, or animal:
- A person who is licensed to practice medicine and has trained at a school of medicine, chiropractic, optometry, podiatry, dentistry, or veterinary medicine.
- A practitioner of alternative medicine or folk medicine who does not have traditional medical credentials.
- A person who has earned the highest academic degree, usually a PhD, awarded by a college or university in a specified discipline.
- To make impure by adding extraneous, improper, or inferior ingredients.
- Spurious; adulterated.
- Adulterous.
See also:To ruin utterly in character or quality
- To turn or twist (wood, for example) out of shape; deform.
- To alter from a normal, proper, or healthy state; twist or pervert:
- To arrange strands of yarn or thread lengthwise onto (a loom) in preparation for weaving.
- To reduce the value or quality of; impair or spoil:
- To corrupt morally; debase:
- To make ineffective (a contract or legal stipulation, for example); invalidate.
- To discolor, soil, or spot:
- To bring into disrepute; taint or tarnish:
- To change the color of (a piece of wood, for example) by applying a stain.
- To cause to turn away from what is right, proper, or good; debase:
- To corrupt (someone) morally.
- To interpret incorrectly; misconstrue or distort:
- To debase, especially morally; corrupt.
- To undermine the confidence or morale of; dishearten:
- To put into disorder; confuse.
- To debase the morals of; corrupt.
- To corrupt morally.
- To seduce (someone).
- To reduce the value, quality, or excellence of; debase:
- Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.
- Venal or dishonest:
- Containing errors or alterations, especially ones that prevent proper understanding or use:
- Ulceration of the mouth and lips.
- An inflammation or infection of the ear and auditory canal, especially in dogs and cats.
- A condition in horses similar to but more advanced than thrush.
- To make cruel, harsh, or unfeeling.
- To treat cruelly or harshly.
- To represent or portray as an animal or beast.
- To reduce to a bestial condition; deprave.
- To lower in quality or character; debase.
- To declare or prove (someone) to be a bastard.
- To cause (another) to behave like an animal.
- To depict or represent in the form of an animal.
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Another word for debase
Verb
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- To reduce the value or quality of; impair or spoil:
- To corrupt morally; debase:
- To make ineffective (a contract or legal stipulation, for example); invalidate.
- To lower in rank, prestige, or esteem.
- To look angry, sullen, or threatening.
- To appear dark or stormy, as the sky.
- A threatening, sullen, or angry look.
- To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner:
- To lessen or cancel the value of.
- To lower the exchange value of (a currency) by lowering its gold equivalency.
- To lower the exchange value of a currency by lowering its gold equivalency.
- To make cheap or cheaper.
- To lower in public estimation; debase or degrade:
- To become cheap or cheaper.
- To lower in quality or value; make inferior or less valuable:
- To lower in dignity; dishonor or disgrace:
- To reduce in grade, rank, or status; demote.
- Marked by meekness or modesty in behavior, attitude, or spirit; not arrogant or prideful.
- Showing deferential or submissive respect:
- Low in rank, quality, or station; unpretentious or lowly:
- To corrupt morally.
- To seduce (someone).
- To reduce the value, quality, or excellence of; debase:
- To debase, especially morally; corrupt.
- To cause to turn away from what is right, proper, or good; debase:
- To corrupt (someone) morally.
- To interpret incorrectly; misconstrue or distort:
- Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.
- Venal or dishonest:
- Containing errors or alterations, especially ones that prevent proper understanding or use:
See also:
Synonym Study
- Pervert suggests a distorting of or departure from what is considered right, natural, or true a perverted sense of humor See also syn. study at humble.
- Debauch implies a loss of moral purity or integrity as through dissipation or intemperate indulgence debauched young profligates
- Corrupt implies a deterioration or loss of soundness by some destructive or contaminating influence a government corrupted by bribery
- Deprave suggests gross degeneration, esp. with reference to morals a mind depraved by crime
- Debase implies generally a lowering in quality, value, dignity, etc. greed had debased his character
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