Word Meanings - DEBASE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words. The

Additional info about word: DEBASE

To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words. The coin which was adulterated and debased. Hale. It is a kind of taking God's name in vain to debase religion with such frivolous disputes. Hooker. And to debase the sons, exalts the sires. Pope. Syn. -- To abase; degrade. See Abase. (more info) Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEBASE)

• Adulterate
• Debase
• corrupt
• deteriorate
• vitiate
• contaminate
• Corrupt Spoil
• impair
• putrefy
• demoralize
• debase
• defile
• pollute
• deprave
• Lower Depress
• decrease
• reduce
• bate
• abate
• drop
• humiliate
• sink
• humble
• diminish
• Raze
• Demolish
• level
• prostrate
• overthrow
• dismantle
• subvert
• ruin
• destroy
• Sophisticate
• Artificialize
• spoil
• pervert

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEBASE)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better
• Increase
• grow
• amplify
• expand
• augment
• extend
• enlarge
• Roughen
• furrow
• disequalize
• graduate

Related words: (words related to DEBASE)

• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• VITIATE
  1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• ABATER
  One who, or that which, abates.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• DIMINISHER
  One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• LEVELER
  1. One who, or that which, levels. 2. One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.
• LEVEL
  libella level, water level, a plumb level, dim. of libra pound, measure for liquids, balance, water poise, level. Cf. Librate, 1. A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• POLLUTE
  To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse. Neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die. Num. xviii. 32. They have polluted themselves with blood.
• DEBASED
  Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• SEA LEVEL
  The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.