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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionaryde·base \di-ˈbās, dē-\ transitive verb DATE 15651. to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character2. a. to reduce the intrinsic value of (a coin) by increasing the base-metal content b. to reduce the exchange value of (a monetary unit)• de·base·ment \-ˈbās-mənt\ noun• de·bas·er \-ˈbā-sər\ nounSynonyms. debase, vitiate, deprave, corrupt, debauch, pervert mean to cause deterioration or lowering in quality or character. debaseimplies a loss of position, worth, value, or dignity commercialism has debased the holiday vitiate implies a destruction of purity, validity, or effectiveness by allowing entrance of a fault or defect a foreign policy vitiated by partisanship deprave implies moral deterioration by evil thoughts or influences the claim that society is depraved by pornography corrupt implies loss of soundness, purity, or integrity the belief that bureaucratese corrupts the language debauch implies a debasing through sensual indulgence the long stay on a tropical isle had debauched the ship's crew pervert implies a twisting or distorting from what is natural or normal perverted the original goals of the instituteEnglish Etymologydebase 1568, from base "low," on analogy of abase.Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7debasede·base / di5beis / verb[VN] to make sb / sth less valuable or respected 降低…的价值；败坏…的名誉 SYN devalue : Sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship. 体育运动因受商业赞助而降低了声誉。 • de·base·ment noun [U] Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridgedde·base\də̇ˈbās, dēˈ-\ transitive verb(-ed/-ing/-s)Etymology: de- + base (low, vile); after abase1. obsolete : to lower in esteem by verbal attack : disparage, vilify2. : to lower in status or esteem < debase himself by physical labor >: put to a low or inferior use < a style debased by many imitators >3. : to lower the quality or character of : cause to deteriorate < struggle with Hannibal had … debased the Roman temper — John Buchan >4. a. : to reduce the intrinsic value of (a coin) by increasing the base-metal content b. : to reduce the exchange value of (a monetary unit) :depreciateSynonyms: vitiate, deprave, corrupt, debauch, pervert: debase indicates a drastic and regrettable lowering in worth, value, and dignity and a loss of fine or good qualities < the human values cruelly and systematically debased by the Nazis — Vera M. Dean > < Strachey's attitude toward a respected historical figure and his new techniques were soon debased by a school of so-called debunking biographers — J.D.Hart > vitiate is applicable to the introduction or effect of something deleterious and the ensuing destruction of purity, impairment of validity, or enervation of effectiveness < party jealousies vitiated the whole military organization — Times Literary Supplement > < his endless muttering vitiated every effort I made to think out a line of action — H.G.Wells > deprave indicates moral deterioration into the obscene and vicious < the servants, wicked and depraved, corrupt and deprave the children; the children are bad, full of evil, to a sinister degree — Henry James †1916 > corrupt indicates bringing about a loss of soundness, purity, and integrity < at sixteen the girl was further corrupted by a “perverse and wicked” young man — Edmund Wilson > < the ballot box, corrupted, no longer recorded the voice of the people — Oscar Handlin > < to corrupt their taste first and try to purify it afterwards — Bertrand Russell > debauch usually suggests corrupting and vulgarizing through sensual pleasure or other indulgence with loss of sense of morality, loyalty, duty, integrity, and resolution < she takes them to an enchanted isle, where she debauches them with enervating delights and renders them oblivious to their duty — R.A.Hall b. 1911 > < readers debauched by sentimental and romantic liberalism and naturalism — Douglas Bush > pervert suggests a debasing twisting or contorting into an untrue or abnormal condition < those who pervert good words to careless misuse may be thought more often ludicrous than harmful — J.M.Barzun > < those who pervert honest criticism into falsification of fact — F.D.Roosevelt > < sexually perverted during his term in prison >

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