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Meanings of debase (debases) in English

Portuguese
corromper
Catalan
pervertir
Spanish
subvertir

Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.

corromper
Portuguese
adulterar

Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones.

adulterar

To make a person morally inferior.

Lower in value by increasing the base-metal content.

Usage of debases in English
1
Direct provision debases the inherent dignity, worth and value of human beings.
The Irish Times
2
That's what debases a man; not the selling of sugar and tea.
Will Warburton
3
Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid, but debases him.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I / Including His Answe...
4
This debases the currency of international development targets as a force for change.
The Guardian
5
The lack of multifaceted work debases the worker to the level of the machine.
The new yorker
6
The put-on elevates the fraudulent and debases the true, rendering the entire proceedings questionable.
The new yorker
7
Nay, bright eyes only lend their aid to the law that debases her life.
Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
8
There comes a time, I believe, when the stomach debases us against our wills.
Under the Andes
9
Because religion ever seeks to ennoble a man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.
"My Novel" — Volume 12
10
He is too proud to own to himself that it debases him-tooproud to complain.
Evan Harrington — Volume 6
11
What imperfection, what vice, what passion debases them?
An Historical Mystery (The Gondreville Mystery)
12
It debases him, and would make me hate myself; were I to participate in such an action.'
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
13
When a man of style debases himself to practical life, he loses caste and should be punished.
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
14
These ministers believe it to be morally wrong to convert God's golden grain into what debases mankind.
Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into...
15
Here the corruption which debases democracies was as unknown as the discontents which undermine the thrones of monarchies.
The Coming Race
16
There are some spheres the contact with which inevitably degrades the high, debases the pure, deforms the beautiful.
The Blithedale Romance
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