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Another word for debase

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debase

v.

corrupt, pervert, deprave, debauch, humble, degrade, cheapen, devalue, demean, lower, abase, vitiate; see also corrupt 1.

debase implies generally a lowering in quality, value, dignity, etc. greed had debased his character; deprave suggests gross degeneration, esp. with reference to morals a mind depraved by crime; corrupt implies a deterioration or loss of soundness by some destructive or contaminating influence a government corrupted by bribery; debauch implies a loss of moral purity or integrity as through dissipation or intemperate indulgence debauched young profligates; 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.

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Another word for debase

verb

To lower in character or quality:
cheapen, degrade, demean², downgrade. See better
To make impure or inferior by deceptively adding foreign substances:
adulterate, doctor, load, sophisticate. See clean
To ruin utterly in character or quality:
animalize, bastardize, bestialize, brutalize, canker, corrupt, debauch, demoralize, deprave, pervert, stain, vitiate, warp. See clean, help

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If heroes could so debase themselves, can we wonder if men who were not heroes lent themselves to every sort of villainy ?
His need of money led him to debase the currency eighty-one times between 1350 and 1355.
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.

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