to debase
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6.9
- verb
- /dɪˈbeɪs/
:
adulterar
- When brands use cheap materials to cut costs, they often debase the quality of their products.
- debased currency
- debased form
But every empire ends when they debase the currency.
- But every empire ends when they debase the currency.
- So quantitative easing is a way of saying we're going to debase the money.
- It's because they debase the silver that like the quarter, the Dimes and the half dollars.
- The government's going to debase the currency, spend it on things you disagree with, and you're going to be poor, right?
Examples
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In the age of industrialization, Rococo refinement was debased by the use of cheaper materials.
Academic text (2014) -
Governments began debasing their coins with cheaper metals and printing more of their own currency than they had in gold.
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And as they debase the money, it hurts.
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But every empire ends when they debase the currency.
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To do so is to debase education and its primary sponsoring institution, the school.
Academic text (1999) -
The currency of France was debased every 20 months, for 200 years.
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We are in a world where the dollar just fundamentally debases naturally as you print more money.
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The government's going to debase the currency, spend it on things you disagree with, and you're going to be poor, right?
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Making education the equivalent of a bigger paycheck has only debased education as a moral and civilizing influence.
Academic text (1992) -
The government decided to debase the currency by reducing the amount of gold in each coin.
Synonyms
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8.1
To add cheaper substances to a product to lower its quality
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4.7
Make a person or thing seem less important
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4.2
Gradually make someone's trust, belief, or support weaker over time
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5.1
To make something worse in quality or value
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4.9
To make something lower in rank, value or importance
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4.9
To make a product worse by adding cheaper ingredients
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5.0
To make something seem less important or respected
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8.2
To make food or drink impure by adding cheaper ingredients
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8.2
To make something lower quality by changing it from its original form
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6.5
Make a person or thing seem less important and less valuable
To mix a valuable metal with a cheaper metal to make it less pure
To treat something as not worth much or make it worth less
To lower a person's rank, status, or moral character
To make something seem less valuable or important
Antonyms
How Degraded
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Morphology
Etymology
Debase comes from de- 'down' and base (from Latin bassus) 'low'. Long ago, rulers would mix cheap metal into coins to push their value 'down', so to debase something is to lower its value or quality.