debase

debase is a   Verb

Definition:

[1] 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. The coin which was adulterated and debased. Hale. It is a kind of taking God`s name in vain to debase religion with such frivolous disputes. Hooker. And to debase the sons, exalts the sires. Pope.

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