debaseverb [ T ]
uk/dɪˈbeɪs/us/dɪˈbeɪs/to reduce the quality or value of something:
Some argue that money has debased football.
Our world view has become debased. We no longer have a sense of the sacred.
debase the coinage/currency
to lower the value of a coin by making it from a less valuable metal
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Deteriorating and making worse
- a step backwards idiom
- a turn of the screw idiom
- add
- afford
- aggravate
- backslide
- compound
- decline
- degrade
- disintegrate
- dog
- downgrade
- downhill
- exacerbate
- regress
- retrograde
- retrogress
- run yourself down
- seed
- slip
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debasement
noun [ U ] uk/dɪˈbeɪs.mənt/us/dɪˈbeɪs.mənt/