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debasingverbpresent participle of debase to lower in character, dignity, or qualitywe debase ourselves when we adopt the moral code and behavior of our despised enemies abasing, bastardizing, cankering, cheapening, corrupting, 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' eyesour failure to win a single game completely debased us abasing, chastening, cheapening, 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 in 1630 |