Definition of debase in English:

debase

verb dɪˈbeɪsdəˈbeɪs

1with object Reduce (something) in quality or value; degrade.
贬低，降低
the love episodes debase the dignity of the drama
爱情插曲冲淡了该戏剧的庄重性。
Example sentencesExamples
- The intimidation of political dissidents threatens the right of free speech for all and debases our traditions of civil liberty and tolerance.
- I mean, they use military language in football, too, and we don't complain about that overstating the case or debasing the language.
- These are the sort of values that Australian people cherish, are entitled to but are being debased by this government.
- I'm all about building up the human spirit, not debasing it and degrading it all the more.
- Rather, it assumes a more traditional role in which art becomes a privatized sphere of reality, seen in opposition to a world debased by common values.
- As a place for sport and place for pride, this wonderful space has been debased by senseless people acting, presumably, on behalf of the nation, without, of course, the people's voice.
- Part of the charge against the Olympics is that while proclaiming simple idealism it in fact debases the meaning and purpose of sport itself.
- But it does so through the methods of politics, however corrupted and debased these have become in our country.
- Everywhere people recognise that genuine forms of corruption debase the quality of their life, lead to the degradation of their social and physical environment.
- The ‘anti’ brigade says that gifts can debase the trust between doctor and patient and devalue the true value of the care that doctors give.
- This is the sort of thing that debases a language and a culture.
- It was reprehensible the way they debased the institutions of government to fund the '96 campaign.
- This skewed history is the result of an oral culture being debased and devalued through the past century.
- His way is not just to debase traditional standards; it is to do away with them altogether.
- Public life has been debased by the rancid culture of personality politics.
- But they should not be allowed to force us into unnecessarily debasing the quality of our democracy.
- The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
- Sayles shows us characters peddling debased versions of history and culture put to the service of marketing.
- Inflation, which is always politically engineered, devalues currencies, debases trust and takes years to work its way out of investors' perceptions.
- The phenomenon distorts religion, debases tradition, and twists the political process wherever it unfolds.
Synonyms
degrade, devalue, demean, lower the status of, reduce the status of, cheapen, prostitute, discredit, drag down, drag through the mud, tarnish, blacken, blemish
disgrace, dishonour, shame, bring shame to, humble, humiliate
damage, harm, undermine
corrupt, corrupted, bastardized, adulterated, diluted, polluted, tainted, sullied, spoiled, spoilt
rare vitiated
1. 1.1 Lower the moral character of (someone)
  降低（人）的道德品质
  war debases people
  战争降低人们的道德品质。
  Example sentencesExamples
  You can see the suppressed masculine rage about this emerging in the phenomenal rise of violent internet porn based on debasing women and ‘putting them in their place’.
  As a Christian I believe we must always recognize the dignity of even the most debased human being and we should not take pleasure in their death.
  It is unfair, unequal, biased, and debases us all.
  For those viewers who aren't regular watchers of this show, let me recap how the game works: People debase themselves for money.
  We expect our television to debase us, empty us, and condescend to us.
  The acts complained of were such as to arouse in the applicant feelings of fear, anguish, and inferiority capable of humiliating and debasing him and possibly breaking his resistance.
  There is no evidence in this case of any positive intention to humiliate or debase the applicant.
  He is representative of the debased and semi-criminal character of the oligarchy that rules the country.
  For some people extending human control over genes is the supreme act of hubris and, like all hubris, threatens paradoxically not to elevate but to debase us.
  People like to watch people debase themselves.
  Not content to debase himself, he insisted that his wife drink as well.
  If the Minister had received cash in return for assisting a visa or passport application, that would debase him.
  In the light of the foregoing, the Court considers that in the present case there is no evidence that there was a positive intention of humiliating or debasing the applicant.
  The corollary is that when shown what debases us, our soul compresses and our ego inflates.
  The sick jerk probably debased us in his mind to the point where we didn't even have any feelings.
  His message spoke directly to a people who had been utterly debased by the country's white-supremacist society.
  Far from debasing his models (most of whom are not naked), Newton places them at the heart of a deep and complex drama where they rule like errant queens.
  It is deemed treatment to be degrading because it was such as to arouse in the victims feelings of fear, anguish and inferiority capable of humiliating and debasing them.
  Monroe had fled to the Actors Studio in the mid-'50s to achieve something more than the stardom she felt debased her.
  Trying to keep track of 18 people rapidly debasing themselves in the hope of winning a million dollars was no easy feat.
  Synonyms
  immoral, debauched, dissolute, abandoned, perverted, degenerate, profligate, degraded, wicked, sinful, vile, base, iniquitous, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, vicious, brutal, lewd, licentious, lascivious, lecherous, prurient, obscene, indecent, libertine
2historical Lower the value of (coinage) by reducing the content of precious metal.
〈史〉降低（铸币）的成色
the King was forced to debase the coinage
Example sentencesExamples
- The US financed the war through printing extra dollars (rather than through increased taxation) and so it debased its own currency.
- It should be noted that the coinage was often debased (lowered in value through the admixture of alloy) and strategically revalued.
- In Europe, gold was democratized by its use in coins, even though successive rulers tried to debase them by mixing in lesser metals or reducing their size.
- Milton Friedman pointed out some years ago that when the government spends, it will figure out a way to finance its spending, whether by taxes, by deficit borrowing or debasing the currency.
- The state has understood this lesson since the kings of old began repeatedly to debase the coinage.
Synonyms
reduce in value, reduce in quality
contaminate, adulterate, pollute, taint, defile, spoil, foul, sully, depreciate, corrupt, bastardize
dilute, alloy
rare vitiate

Derivatives

debasement

noun dɪˈbeɪsm(ə)ntdəˈbeɪsmənt

Worse, a discouraged, angry, and alienated lower class is directly related to the growing debasement of our popular culture.
Example sentencesExamples
- They blame pornography for divorce, the dissolution of families, the debasement of sex, and general spiritual dissolution.
- The debasement and corruption of the media are profound symptoms of the decomposition of the country's democracy.
- Patents have made science increasingly profit-focused, a debasement which has led to calls from some scientists to do away with them altogether.
- This process is rooted in a constant debasement of humans, deprived of moral and ethical ‘values.’

debaser

noun dɪˈbeɪsədəˈbeɪsər

The Emperor Nero was a great man for this carry-on, as was Henry VIII of England, who earned himself the title of ‘the great debaser’.
Example sentencesExamples
- Numerous laws and statutes enacted against ‘multipliers of metals’ and debasers of coins suggest that this was a profitable medieval equivalent of money-laundering and financial fraud.
- A perpetual drunkard and debaser of women, he spends most of his waking hours wandering around his house in a bathrobe, playing racquetball in a converted barn, and painting nudes.
- America needs a third political party - a real third party that will stand up to Washington's nefarious tax tyrants and dollar debasers.

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense 'humiliate, belittle'): from de- 'down' + the obsolete verb base (compare with abase), expressing the notion 'bring down completely'.

Definition of debase in US English:

debase

verbdəˈbāsdəˈbeɪs

[with object]

1Reduce (something) in quality or value; degrade.
贬低，降低
the love episodes debase the dignity of the drama
爱情插曲冲淡了该戏剧的庄重性。
Example sentencesExamples
- I mean, they use military language in football, too, and we don't complain about that overstating the case or debasing the language.
- Sayles shows us characters peddling debased versions of history and culture put to the service of marketing.
- The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
- Everywhere people recognise that genuine forms of corruption debase the quality of their life, lead to the degradation of their social and physical environment.
- Public life has been debased by the rancid culture of personality politics.
- But it does so through the methods of politics, however corrupted and debased these have become in our country.
- Inflation, which is always politically engineered, devalues currencies, debases trust and takes years to work its way out of investors' perceptions.
- The ‘anti’ brigade says that gifts can debase the trust between doctor and patient and devalue the true value of the care that doctors give.
- This skewed history is the result of an oral culture being debased and devalued through the past century.
- These are the sort of values that Australian people cherish, are entitled to but are being debased by this government.
- The intimidation of political dissidents threatens the right of free speech for all and debases our traditions of civil liberty and tolerance.
- The phenomenon distorts religion, debases tradition, and twists the political process wherever it unfolds.
- As a place for sport and place for pride, this wonderful space has been debased by senseless people acting, presumably, on behalf of the nation, without, of course, the people's voice.
- His way is not just to debase traditional standards; it is to do away with them altogether.
- This is the sort of thing that debases a language and a culture.
- But they should not be allowed to force us into unnecessarily debasing the quality of our democracy.
- It was reprehensible the way they debased the institutions of government to fund the '96 campaign.
- Part of the charge against the Olympics is that while proclaiming simple idealism it in fact debases the meaning and purpose of sport itself.
- Rather, it assumes a more traditional role in which art becomes a privatized sphere of reality, seen in opposition to a world debased by common values.
- I'm all about building up the human spirit, not debasing it and degrading it all the more.
Synonyms
degrade, devalue, demean, lower the status of, reduce the status of, cheapen, prostitute, discredit, drag down, drag through the mud, tarnish, blacken, blemish
corrupt, corrupted, bastardized, adulterated, diluted, polluted, tainted, sullied, spoiled, spoilt
1. 1.1 Lower the moral character of (someone)
  降低（人）的道德品质
  war debases people
  战争降低人们的道德品质。
  Example sentencesExamples
  There is no evidence in this case of any positive intention to humiliate or debase the applicant.
  If the Minister had received cash in return for assisting a visa or passport application, that would debase him.
  Monroe had fled to the Actors Studio in the mid-'50s to achieve something more than the stardom she felt debased her.
  For some people extending human control over genes is the supreme act of hubris and, like all hubris, threatens paradoxically not to elevate but to debase us.
  It is unfair, unequal, biased, and debases us all.
  The acts complained of were such as to arouse in the applicant feelings of fear, anguish, and inferiority capable of humiliating and debasing him and possibly breaking his resistance.
  It is deemed treatment to be degrading because it was such as to arouse in the victims feelings of fear, anguish and inferiority capable of humiliating and debasing them.
  The sick jerk probably debased us in his mind to the point where we didn't even have any feelings.
  People like to watch people debase themselves.
  Not content to debase himself, he insisted that his wife drink as well.
  As a Christian I believe we must always recognize the dignity of even the most debased human being and we should not take pleasure in their death.
  Far from debasing his models (most of whom are not naked), Newton places them at the heart of a deep and complex drama where they rule like errant queens.
  His message spoke directly to a people who had been utterly debased by the country's white-supremacist society.
  Trying to keep track of 18 people rapidly debasing themselves in the hope of winning a million dollars was no easy feat.
  The corollary is that when shown what debases us, our soul compresses and our ego inflates.
  You can see the suppressed masculine rage about this emerging in the phenomenal rise of violent internet porn based on debasing women and ‘putting them in their place’.
  In the light of the foregoing, the Court considers that in the present case there is no evidence that there was a positive intention of humiliating or debasing the applicant.
  We expect our television to debase us, empty us, and condescend to us.
  For those viewers who aren't regular watchers of this show, let me recap how the game works: People debase themselves for money.
  He is representative of the debased and semi-criminal character of the oligarchy that rules the country.
  Synonyms
  immoral, debauched, dissolute, abandoned, perverted, degenerate, profligate, degraded, wicked, sinful, vile, base, iniquitous, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, vicious, brutal, lewd, licentious, lascivious, lecherous, prurient, obscene, indecent, libertine
2. 1.2historical Lower the value of (coinage) by reducing the content of precious metal.
  〈史〉降低（铸币）的成色
  Example sentencesExamples
  The US financed the war through printing extra dollars (rather than through increased taxation) and so it debased its own currency.
  It should be noted that the coinage was often debased (lowered in value through the admixture of alloy) and strategically revalued.
  Milton Friedman pointed out some years ago that when the government spends, it will figure out a way to finance its spending, whether by taxes, by deficit borrowing or debasing the currency.
  The state has understood this lesson since the kings of old began repeatedly to debase the coinage.
  In Europe, gold was democratized by its use in coins, even though successive rulers tried to debase them by mixing in lesser metals or reducing their size.
  Synonyms
  reduce in value, reduce in quality

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘humiliate, belittle’): from de- ‘down’ + the obsolete verb base (compare with abase), expressing the notion ‘bring down completely’.

词汇	debase
释义	Definition of debase in English: debase verb dɪˈbeɪsdəˈbeɪs 1with object Reduce (something) in quality or value; degrade. 贬低，降低 the love episodes debase the dignity of the drama 爱情插曲冲淡了该戏剧的庄重性。 Example sentencesExamples The intimidation of political dissidents threatens the right of free speech for all and debases our traditions of civil liberty and tolerance. I mean, they use military language in football, too, and we don't complain about that overstating the case or debasing the language. These are the sort of values that Australian people cherish, are entitled to but are being debased by this government. I'm all about building up the human spirit, not debasing it and degrading it all the more. Rather, it assumes a more traditional role in which art becomes a privatized sphere of reality, seen in opposition to a world debased by common values. As a place for sport and place for pride, this wonderful space has been debased by senseless people acting, presumably, on behalf of the nation, without, of course, the people's voice. Part of the charge against the Olympics is that while proclaiming simple idealism it in fact debases the meaning and purpose of sport itself. But it does so through the methods of politics, however corrupted and debased these have become in our country. Everywhere people recognise that genuine forms of corruption debase the quality of their life, lead to the degradation of their social and physical environment. The ‘anti’ brigade says that gifts can debase the trust between doctor and patient and devalue the true value of the care that doctors give. This is the sort of thing that debases a language and a culture. It was reprehensible the way they debased the institutions of government to fund the '96 campaign. This skewed history is the result of an oral culture being debased and devalued through the past century. His way is not just to debase traditional standards; it is to do away with them altogether. Public life has been debased by the rancid culture of personality politics. But they should not be allowed to force us into unnecessarily debasing the quality of our democracy. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible. Sayles shows us characters peddling debased versions of history and culture put to the service of marketing. Inflation, which is always politically engineered, devalues currencies, debases trust and takes years to work its way out of investors' perceptions. The phenomenon distorts religion, debases tradition, and twists the political process wherever it unfolds. Synonyms degrade, devalue, demean, lower the status of, reduce the status of, cheapen, prostitute, discredit, drag down, drag through the mud, tarnish, blacken, blemish disgrace, dishonour, shame, bring shame to, humble, humiliate damage, harm, undermine corrupt, corrupted, bastardized, adulterated, diluted, polluted, tainted, sullied, spoiled, spoilt rare vitiated 1.1 Lower the moral character of (someone) 降低（人）的道德品质 war debases people 战争降低人们的道德品质。 Example sentencesExamples You can see the suppressed masculine rage about this emerging in the phenomenal rise of violent internet porn based on debasing women and ‘putting them in their place’. As a Christian I believe we must always recognize the dignity of even the most debased human being and we should not take pleasure in their death. It is unfair, unequal, biased, and debases us all. For those viewers who aren't regular watchers of this show, let me recap how the game works: People debase themselves for money. We expect our television to debase us, empty us, and condescend to us. The acts complained of were such as to arouse in the applicant feelings of fear, anguish, and inferiority capable of humiliating and debasing him and possibly breaking his resistance. There is no evidence in this case of any positive intention to humiliate or debase the applicant. He is representative of the debased and semi-criminal character of the oligarchy that rules the country. For some people extending human control over genes is the supreme act of hubris and, like all hubris, threatens paradoxically not to elevate but to debase us. People like to watch people debase themselves. Not content to debase himself, he insisted that his wife drink as well. If the Minister had received cash in return for assisting a visa or passport application, that would debase him. In the light of the foregoing, the Court considers that in the present case there is no evidence that there was a positive intention of humiliating or debasing the applicant. The corollary is that when shown what debases us, our soul compresses and our ego inflates. The sick jerk probably debased us in his mind to the point where we didn't even have any feelings. His message spoke directly to a people who had been utterly debased by the country's white-supremacist society. Far from debasing his models (most of whom are not naked), Newton places them at the heart of a deep and complex drama where they rule like errant queens. It is deemed treatment to be degrading because it was such as to arouse in the victims feelings of fear, anguish and inferiority capable of humiliating and debasing them. Monroe had fled to the Actors Studio in the mid-'50s to achieve something more than the stardom she felt debased her. Trying to keep track of 18 people rapidly debasing themselves in the hope of winning a million dollars was no easy feat. Synonyms immoral, debauched, dissolute, abandoned, perverted, degenerate, profligate, degraded, wicked, sinful, vile, base, iniquitous, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, vicious, brutal, lewd, licentious, lascivious, lecherous, prurient, obscene, indecent, libertine 2historical Lower the value of (coinage) by reducing the content of precious metal. 〈史〉降低（铸币）的成色 the King was forced to debase the coinage Example sentencesExamples The US financed the war through printing extra dollars (rather than through increased taxation) and so it debased its own currency. It should be noted that the coinage was often debased (lowered in value through the admixture of alloy) and strategically revalued. In Europe, gold was democratized by its use in coins, even though successive rulers tried to debase them by mixing in lesser metals or reducing their size. Milton Friedman pointed out some years ago that when the government spends, it will figure out a way to finance its spending, whether by taxes, by deficit borrowing or debasing the currency. The state has understood this lesson since the kings of old began repeatedly to debase the coinage. Synonyms reduce in value, reduce in quality contaminate, adulterate, pollute, taint, defile, spoil, foul, sully, depreciate, corrupt, bastardize dilute, alloy rare vitiate Derivatives debasement noun dɪˈbeɪsm(ə)ntdəˈbeɪsmənt Worse, a discouraged, angry, and alienated lower class is directly related to the growing debasement of our popular culture. Example sentencesExamples They blame pornography for divorce, the dissolution of families, the debasement of sex, and general spiritual dissolution. The debasement and corruption of the media are profound symptoms of the decomposition of the country's democracy. Patents have made science increasingly profit-focused, a debasement which has led to calls from some scientists to do away with them altogether. This process is rooted in a constant debasement of humans, deprived of moral and ethical ‘values.’ debaser noun dɪˈbeɪsədəˈbeɪsər The Emperor Nero was a great man for this carry-on, as was Henry VIII of England, who earned himself the title of ‘the great debaser’. Example sentencesExamples Numerous laws and statutes enacted against ‘multipliers of metals’ and debasers of coins suggest that this was a profitable medieval equivalent of money-laundering and financial fraud. A perpetual drunkard and debaser of women, he spends most of his waking hours wandering around his house in a bathrobe, playing racquetball in a converted barn, and painting nudes. America needs a third political party - a real third party that will stand up to Washington's nefarious tax tyrants and dollar debasers. Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense 'humiliate, belittle'): from de- 'down' + the obsolete verb base (compare with abase), expressing the notion 'bring down completely'. Definition of debase in US English: debase verbdəˈbāsdəˈbeɪs [with object] 1Reduce (something) in quality or value; degrade. 贬低，降低 the love episodes debase the dignity of the drama 爱情插曲冲淡了该戏剧的庄重性。 Example sentencesExamples I mean, they use military language in football, too, and we don't complain about that overstating the case or debasing the language. Sayles shows us characters peddling debased versions of history and culture put to the service of marketing. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible. Everywhere people recognise that genuine forms of corruption debase the quality of their life, lead to the degradation of their social and physical environment. Public life has been debased by the rancid culture of personality politics. But it does so through the methods of politics, however corrupted and debased these have become in our country. Inflation, which is always politically engineered, devalues currencies, debases trust and takes years to work its way out of investors' perceptions. The ‘anti’ brigade says that gifts can debase the trust between doctor and patient and devalue the true value of the care that doctors give. This skewed history is the result of an oral culture being debased and devalued through the past century. These are the sort of values that Australian people cherish, are entitled to but are being debased by this government. The intimidation of political dissidents threatens the right of free speech for all and debases our traditions of civil liberty and tolerance. The phenomenon distorts religion, debases tradition, and twists the political process wherever it unfolds. As a place for sport and place for pride, this wonderful space has been debased by senseless people acting, presumably, on behalf of the nation, without, of course, the people's voice. His way is not just to debase traditional standards; it is to do away with them altogether. This is the sort of thing that debases a language and a culture. But they should not be allowed to force us into unnecessarily debasing the quality of our democracy. It was reprehensible the way they debased the institutions of government to fund the '96 campaign. Part of the charge against the Olympics is that while proclaiming simple idealism it in fact debases the meaning and purpose of sport itself. Rather, it assumes a more traditional role in which art becomes a privatized sphere of reality, seen in opposition to a world debased by common values. I'm all about building up the human spirit, not debasing it and degrading it all the more. Synonyms degrade, devalue, demean, lower the status of, reduce the status of, cheapen, prostitute, discredit, drag down, drag through the mud, tarnish, blacken, blemish corrupt, corrupted, bastardized, adulterated, diluted, polluted, tainted, sullied, spoiled, spoilt 1.1 Lower the moral character of (someone) 降低（人）的道德品质 war debases people 战争降低人们的道德品质。 Example sentencesExamples There is no evidence in this case of any positive intention to humiliate or debase the applicant. If the Minister had received cash in return for assisting a visa or passport application, that would debase him. Monroe had fled to the Actors Studio in the mid-'50s to achieve something more than the stardom she felt debased her. For some people extending human control over genes is the supreme act of hubris and, like all hubris, threatens paradoxically not to elevate but to debase us. It is unfair, unequal, biased, and debases us all. The acts complained of were such as to arouse in the applicant feelings of fear, anguish, and inferiority capable of humiliating and debasing him and possibly breaking his resistance. It is deemed treatment to be degrading because it was such as to arouse in the victims feelings of fear, anguish and inferiority capable of humiliating and debasing them. The sick jerk probably debased us in his mind to the point where we didn't even have any feelings. People like to watch people debase themselves. Not content to debase himself, he insisted that his wife drink as well. As a Christian I believe we must always recognize the dignity of even the most debased human being and we should not take pleasure in their death. Far from debasing his models (most of whom are not naked), Newton places them at the heart of a deep and complex drama where they rule like errant queens. His message spoke directly to a people who had been utterly debased by the country's white-supremacist society. Trying to keep track of 18 people rapidly debasing themselves in the hope of winning a million dollars was no easy feat. The corollary is that when shown what debases us, our soul compresses and our ego inflates. You can see the suppressed masculine rage about this emerging in the phenomenal rise of violent internet porn based on debasing women and ‘putting them in their place’. In the light of the foregoing, the Court considers that in the present case there is no evidence that there was a positive intention of humiliating or debasing the applicant. We expect our television to debase us, empty us, and condescend to us. For those viewers who aren't regular watchers of this show, let me recap how the game works: People debase themselves for money. He is representative of the debased and semi-criminal character of the oligarchy that rules the country. Synonyms immoral, debauched, dissolute, abandoned, perverted, degenerate, profligate, degraded, wicked, sinful, vile, base, iniquitous, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, vicious, brutal, lewd, licentious, lascivious, lecherous, prurient, obscene, indecent, libertine 1.2historical Lower the value of (coinage) by reducing the content of precious metal. 〈史〉降低（铸币）的成色 Example sentencesExamples The US financed the war through printing extra dollars (rather than through increased taxation) and so it debased its own currency. It should be noted that the coinage was often debased (lowered in value through the admixture of alloy) and strategically revalued. Milton Friedman pointed out some years ago that when the government spends, it will figure out a way to finance its spending, whether by taxes, by deficit borrowing or debasing the currency. The state has understood this lesson since the kings of old began repeatedly to debase the coinage. In Europe, gold was democratized by its use in coins, even though successive rulers tried to debase them by mixing in lesser metals or reducing their size. Synonyms reduce in value, reduce in quality Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘humiliate, belittle’): from de- ‘down’ + the obsolete verb base (compare with abase), expressing the notion ‘bring down completely’.
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