debase 
de·base (dē bās′, di-)
debase
v.
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.
Object
- coinage: Henry VIII had also debased the coinage in 1526 to compete with the great number of inferior foreign pieces in circulation.
- currency: For, by producing large numbers of false allegations, trawling operations have debased the entire currency of complaints.
- culture: Wherever do those Islamic fundamentalists who rant on about our debased British culture get their ideas from?
- form: Possibly debased Hallstatt form of 6th or 5th cent.
- coin: So, Gresham's Law is not just about debased coins or money.
- language: The debased language that I have been discussing is in some ways very convenient.
Modifying Another Word
- so: Never was the Press so debased as in publishing the productions of their pens.
- not: Of course I did not debase myself by peeping into the letter.
- n't: Do n't debase the asylum debate Leader: New Labor must counter racist lies.
- much: The genre is not so much debased as deflated - wedded to the dying fall.
- very: This aspect causes intense emotional and sexual involvements, and sometimes this can be with very debasing influences.
- thereby: Henceforth they were denied a direct voice in their own affairs, and the value of their citizenship was thereby debased.
Preposition: in
- way: I cant believe that I have let myself be so debased in this way.
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