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cheapeningverbpresent participle of cheapen 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 attenuating, breaking, depreciating, depressing, devaluating, devaluing, downgrading, lowering, marking down, reducing, sinking, writing down, writing off debasing, demonetizingunderestimating, underpricing, underrating, undervaluingabridging, compressing, contracting, de-escalating, deflating, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, moderating, shrinking appreciating, enhancing, marking up, upgrading bloating, blowing up, inflatingoverestimating, overpricing, overrating, overvaluingadding, aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, ballooning, boosting, compounding, dilating, enlarging, escalating, expanding, extending, heightening, increasing, maximizing, multiplying, raising, swelling, upping to lower in character, dignity, or qualitya politician who would cheapen herself by caving in to lobbyists abasing, bastardizing, cankering, corrupting, debasing, debauching, degrading, demeaning, demoralizing, depraving, deteriorating, lessening, perverting, poisoning, profaning, prostituting, subverting, vitiating, warping befouling, begriming, contaminating, defiling, diluting, dirtying, polluting, tainting, thinning, watering down, weakeningdescendingdisgracing, dishonoring, humbling, humiliating, shaming, taking downblemishing, damaging, defacing, destroying, flawing, harming, hurting, impairing, marring, ruining, spoiling, staining, tarnishing, wreckingdepreciating, downgrading elevating, ennobling, uplifting dignifying, exalting, honoringameliorating, amending, bettering, enhancing, enriching, improving, meliorating, perfectingclarifying, cleaning, cleansing, purifying, refining, restoringrespecting to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyesshe really cheapens herself by shamelessly pursuing men like that abasing, chastening, debasing, degrading, demeaning, discrediting, disgracing, dishonoring, fouling, humbling, humiliating, lowering, shaming, sinking, smirching, taking down abashing, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, mortifying, nonplussing(also nonplusing), rattlingbelittling, castigating, criticizing, crying down, decrying, depreciating, detracting, diminishing, discounting, disparaging, minimizing, putting down, ridiculing, writing offbad-mouthing, defaming, defiling, libeling(or libelling), maligning, slanderingaffronting, insultingcensuring, condemning, damning, denouncing, execrating, reprehending, reprobating aggrandizing, canonizing, deifying, elevating, exalting acclaiming, applauding, boasting, celebrating, cheering, citing, commending, complimenting, congratulating, decorating, eulogizing, extolling, feting(or fêting), hailing, honoring, lauding, praising, saluting, toutingacknowledging, recognizinghighlighting, playing up, spotlightingdignifying, ennobling, enshrining, enskying, enthroning, glorifying, magnifyingadvancing, boosting, lifting, promoting, raising, upgrading, upliftingidealizing, romanticizing |