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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To lower in character, quality, or value; degrade. See Synonyms at adulterate, corrupt, degrade.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To reduce in quality or state; impair the purity, worth, or credit of; vitiate; adulterate: as, to debase gold or silver by alloy.
  2. To lower or impair morally; degrade.
  3. Synonyms Debase, Degrade, etc. (see abase), lower, deteriorate, dishonor, alloy, taint, corrupt, defile. See list under degrade.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
  2. v. transitive To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. 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

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. lower in value by increasing the base-metal content
  2. v. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
  3. v. corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones

Etymologies

  1. de- + base2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • blafferty Nice reference, bilby! Apr 27, 2011

  • bilby All debase are belong to incubus. Apr 27, 2011

  • Kristianto2010 The Bible tells us that a rejection of God can actually lead to a more hateful attitude toward Him: “Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind . . . to become haters of God” (Rom. 1:28-30). ODB April 28, 2011.

    Apr 27, 2011

  • rolig Nice, Mediagrey, but I think you mean "the debased direction". "Debase" is a verb, not an adjective. May 17, 2009

  • nuxiy Very nice, mediagrey :) May 17, 2009

  • mediagrey As the scorn of society grips every fiber of my confused existence. Me, an ego centric person made possible only through the comfort of a late Modern Industrialism, looks on helplessly at the debase direction that is driving man into the abyss and eventual collapse of society as I know it.

    May 17, 2009

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