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cheapenverb to diminish the price or value ofa glutted market cheapened cranberries to the point where they were selling for less than what it cost to grow them attenuate, break, depreciate, depress, devaluate, devalue, downgrade, lower, mark down, reduce, sink, write down, write off debase, demonetizeunderestimate, underprice, underrate, undervalueabridge, compress, contract, de-escalate, deflate, downsize, dwindle, lessen, moderate, shrink appreciate, enhance, mark up, upgrade bloat, blow up, inflateoverestimate, overprice, overrate, overvalueadd, aggrandize, amplify, augment, balloon, boost, compound, dilate, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, heighten, increase, maximize, multiply, raise, swell, up to lower in character, dignity, or qualitya politician who would cheapen herself by caving in to lobbyists abase, bastardize, canker, corrupt, debase, debauch, degrade, demean, demoralize, deprave, deteriorate, lessen, pervert, poison, profane, prostitute, subvert, vitiate, warp befoul, begrime, contaminate, defile, dilute, dirty, pollute, taint, thin, water down, weakendescenddisgrace, dishonor, humble, humiliate, shame, take downblemish, damage, deface, destroy, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, mar, ruin, spoil, stain, tarnish, wreckdepreciate, downgrade elevate, ennoble, uplift dignify, exalt, honorameliorate, amend, better, enhance, enrich, improve, meliorate, perfectclarify, clean, cleanse, purify, refine, restorerespect to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyesshe really cheapens herself by shamelessly pursuing men like that abase, chasten, debase, degrade, demean, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, foul, humble, humiliate, lower, shame, sink, smirch, take down abash, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, embarrass, faze, fluster, mortify, nonplus, rattlebelittle, castigate, criticize, cry down, decry, depreciate, detract, diminish, discount, disparage, minimize, put down, ridicule, write offbad-mouth, defame, defile, libel, malign, slanderaffront, insultcensure, condemn, damn, denounce, execrate, reprehend, reprobate aggrandize, canonize, deify, elevate, exalt acclaim, applaud, boast, celebrate, cheer, cite, commend, compliment, congratulate, decorate, eulogize, extol(also extoll), fete(or fête), hail, honor, laud, praise, salute, toutacknowledge, recognizehighlight, play up, spotlightdignify, ennoble, enshrine, ensky, enthrone, glorify, magnifyadvance, boost, lift, promote, raise, upgrade, upliftidealize, romanticize in 1562 |