Debased
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Debase \De*base"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Debased}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Debasing}.] [Pref. de- + base. See {Base}, a., and cf.
{Abase}.]
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; as, to debase the character by crime;
to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar
words.
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The coin which was adulterated and debased. --Hale.
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It is a kind of taking God's name in vain to debase
religion with such frivolous disputes. --Hooker.
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And to debase the sons, exalts the sires. --Pope.
Syn: To abase; degrade. See {Abase}.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "debased":
abandoned, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, base, beggarly,
cheesy, contaminated, contemptible, corrupt, corrupted, couchant,
crouched, crummy, debauched, decadent, degenerate, degraded,
depraved, depressed, despicable, deteriorated, dirty, disgusting,
dissolute, downcast, downthrown, execrable, fallen, flagrant, flat,
foul, fulsome, grave, gross, heinous, knee-high, knocked flat,
laid low, little, low, low-built, low-down, low-hung, low-level,
low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured, lowered, lumpen,
mangy, mean, measly, miserable, monstrous, morally polluted, neap,
nefarious, obnoxious, odious, paltry, perverted, petty, poky,
polluted, poor, profligate, prone, prostrate, rank, recumbent,
reduced, reprobate, reptilian, rotten, runty, scabby, scrubby,
scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shoddy, short, small, squalid,
squat, squatty, steeped in iniquity, stooped, stumpy, submerged,
sunk, sunken, supine, tainted, unelevated, unmentionable,
vice-corrupted, vile, vitiate, vitiated, warped, wretched
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