debase
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
Definition of debase
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
“And just as history will decide whether the leaders of today's world employed the atom to destroy the world or rebuild it for mankind's benefit, so will history decide whether today's broadcasters employed their powerful voice to enrich the people or to debase them.”
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verb
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(transitive)To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
“And just as history will decide whether the leaders of today's world employed the atom to destroy the world or rebuild it for mankind's benefit, so will history decide whether today's broadcasters employed their powerful voice to enrich the people or to debase them.”
- (archaic, transitive)To lower in position or rank.
- (transitive)To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From de- + base, from Old French bas, from Latin bassus. Cognate with Spanish debajo (“under, beneath, below”). Compare abase.
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