Debase Synonyms and Antonyms

dĭ-bās
To lower in character or quality
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. degrade
  2. demean
  3. cheapen
  4. abase
  5. downgrade
To ruin utterly in character or quality
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. corrupt
  2. debauch
  3. pervert
  4. deprave
  5. vitiate
  6. bastardize
  7. cheapen
  8. demean
  9. alloy
  10. degrade
  11. abase
  12. humble
  13. demoralize
  14. lower
  15. devalue
  16. animalize
  17. bestialize
  18. brutalize
  19. adulterate
  20. canker
  21. belittle
  22. contaminate
  23. defame
  24. defile
  25. degenerate
  26. deglamorize
  27. denigrate
  28. deteriorate
  29. discredit
  30. disgrace
  31. dishonor
  32. subvert
  33. harm
  34. heathenize
  35. stain
  36. humiliate
  37. impair
  38. minimize
  39. paganize
  40. demoralise
  41. pollute
  42. warp
  43. reduce
  44. revile
  45. shame
  46. sink
  47. spoil
  48. stigmatize
  49. stoop
  50. sully
  51. profane
  52. vilify
  53. vulgarize
  54. misdirect
Antonyms:
  1. upgrade
  2. honor
  3. laud
  4. praise
  5. elevate
  6. value
To make impure or inferior by deceptively adding foreign substances
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. adulterate
  2. load
  3. doctor
  4. sophisticate
  5. stretch
  6. dilute
Antonyms:
  1. clean
  2. purify
  3. clear
  4. improve
  5. enhance
Synonyms:
  1. degrading

Words Related to Debase

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Debase Sentence Examples

  • Of course I did not debase myself by peeping into the letter.

  • His need of money led him to debase the currency eighty-one times between 1350 and 1355.

  • If heroes could so debase themselves, can we wonder if men who were not heroes lent themselves to every sort of villainy ?

  • Although his resources had been so completely drained that he had been forced to melt the silver in his palaces and to debase the coinage, his energy soon brought back the national prosperity.

  • His chief financial expedient was to debase, or rather ruin, the currency by issuing copper tokens redeemable in better times; but it was no fault of his that Charles XII., during his absence, flung upon the market too enormous an amount of this copper money for Gertz to deal with.