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Meanings of
debased
in English
Mixed with impurities.
adulterated
adulterate
Related terms
impure
Lowered in value.
degraded
devalued
Related terms
low
Ruined in character or quality.
corrupted
vitiated
Related terms
corrupt
Usage of
debased
in English
1
But politics and government have been seriously
debased
by the current administration.
2
We stop short of nose-picking; we are
debased
enough as it is.
3
It is exceedingly
debased
;
you must be the cause of its exaltation.
4
Twitter is the ideal, and toxic, medium for this
debased
political culture.
5
Six thousand days on, he was too
debased
to resent his debasement.
6
Thirteen years before the Hegira, Mecca lay lifeless in this
debased
state.
7
Some are
debased
by the more serious fault of ribaldry and profaneness.
8
The females were early
debased
,
and presented spectacles of nakedness and misery.
9
This
debased
form of Christianity existed as late as the seventeenth century.
10
He
debased
the coin, and resorted to irritating measures to raise money.
11
Yet the heart of young Laurence was not hardened, nor altogether
debased
.
12
His pen has never been
debased
by an inartistic and antiquated idealism.
13
Every desired renewal of an existence is
debased
by being half alloy.
14
Even the memory of his grand passion was now corrupted, sullied,
debased
.
15
Three of them were lean young men, with hardy,
debased
,
animal countenances.
16
What a crowd of people I have had to-day, and how
debased
!
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About this term
debased
debase
Verb
Indicative · Past Indefinite
Adjective
Frequent collocations
debase by
debase form
debase the coinage
debase currency
debase character
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Debased
through the time
Debased
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common