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Meanings of debase (debases) in English
Synonyms
Examples for "corrupt"
Examples for "corrupt"
1
Power tends to corrupt, he said memorably, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
2
Protesters blame a corrupt political system that shares power among sectarian parties.
3
They are corrupt; they are base; they are cowardly; they are cruel.
4
They pay this corrupt money to thugs, and then violence takes place.
5
Research suggests mail voting would produce a near-negligible number of corrupt votes.
1
The profane words are but a speck in a sea of monosyllables.
2
It was the profane heathen, of whom Israel learned to worship idols.
3
The profane is judged by all; but the other by a few.
4
August 22:-Veryprofane and vindictive in his accusations towards the prison officials.
5
The rough ashlar is the profane, the perfect ashlar is the initiate.
1
I have good reasons for mentioning his name: He's a pervert, Travis.
2
The Novels by Eminent Hands do not pervert the originals they exaggerate.
3
You probably think I'm some pervert out to take advantage of you.
4
Matzneff has said Springora was misrepresenting him as a pervert and abuser.
5
He had always sought to pervert and discredit the word of God.
1
However, certain viruses can subvert the immune response to establish persistent infections.
2
Poet'Most organisations understand that they have to subvert their own received reality.
3
Romantic comedies have certain rules they either have to follow or subvert.
4
But the National embrace the obvious the more effectively to subvert it.
5
Viruses activate inflammasomes but then subvert resulting inflammatory responses to avoid elimination.
1
The chances for a debauch looked peaked and slim in the extreme.
2
Night comes and robs me of the finish of the unbridled debauch.
3
The unfortunate governor's ukase had precipitated a general debauch for all hands.
4
The Maalem rose at last, somewhat unsteadily after his debauch of kief.
5
It is splendid flesh, but he has been on a long debauch.
1
To defeat an army, you must demoralize and throw it into disorder.
2
Everything was done to demoralize, frighten and overawe judges, witnesses and jurors.
3
The fear exists that the fall of the captain will demoralize the rest.
4
We indulge in feelings which tend to demoralize the whole character.
5
In plain English, he wishes to demoralize only the higher classes of society.
1
Small-pox does not vitiate the blood of a people; this disease does.
2
It is as apt to vitiate the system as to protect it.
3
Encroaching winter and ineffective international commitment may vitiate the humanitarian and redevelopment efforts.
4
Civilization tends to corrupt men, as large towns tend to vitiate the air.
5
Tithes, politics, or something wrong in principle, vitiate every Irish murder.
1
Should we clear it of bugs or use it to misdirect them?
2
Your energy levels are likely to be high, but you could misdirect them.
3
Don't think you are going to misdirect us with that sort of thing.
4
It is Mr. Lance whom you thought to misdirect to this solitary house.
5
It was a gambit, a false flag to misdirect the rest of us.
1
It believes a full apology would demoralise its citizens and project weakness.
2
Too much politics in our food threatened to demoralise our large cities.
3
Analysts said the move could demoralise the remaining cadres of ULFA.
4
Two or three executions of this kind usually sufficed to demoralise the enemy.
5
It hadn't struck me before, but it is a fact; I do demoralise children.
1
Such attacks are apt to deprave both the assailant and the assailed.
2
In the latter, many men's wits spent to deprave the wit of one.
3
Crowd bad men and women together, and they corrupt and deprave each other.
4
If my book is a romance, the fault lies with those who deprave mankind.
5
Such engagements are always dangerous; sometimes they deprave the character of the man or woman.'
Usage of debases in English
1
Direct provision debases the inherent dignity, worth and value of human beings.
2
That's what debases a man; not the selling of sugar and tea.
3
Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid, but debases him.
4
This debases the currency of international development targets as a force for change.
5
The lack of multifaceted work debases the worker to the level of the machine.
6
The put-on elevates the fraudulent and debases the true, rendering the entire proceedings questionable.
7
Nay, bright eyes only lend their aid to the law that debases her life.
8
There comes a time, I believe, when the stomach debases us against our wills.
9
Because religion ever seeks to ennoble a man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.
10
He is too proud to own to himself that it debases him-tooproud to complain.
11
What imperfection, what vice, what passion debases them?
12
It debases him, and would make me hate myself; were I to participate in such an action.'
13
When a man of style debases himself to practical life, he loses caste and should be punished.
14
These ministers believe it to be morally wrong to convert God's golden grain into what debases mankind.
15
Here the corruption which debases democracies was as unknown as the discontents which undermine the thrones of monarchies.
16
There are some spheres the contact with which inevitably degrades the high, debases the pure, deforms the beautiful.
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