cheapen
verb (used with object)
to make cheap or cheaper.
had cheapened
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past perfectof cheapen.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Later in the interview, the “Taken” star remarked that he felt the stream of “Star Wars” content had cheapened the franchise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
Among the naysayers was fashion designer Coco Chanel, who thought Mr. Cardin had cheapened design with shameless overexposure.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2020
Larson, a professor at the University of California at Davis School of Law and an expert on treason, said the president had cheapened the word through overuse.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2019
Bush’s opponents—and some of his friends—thought that he had cheapened himself in the bare-knuckled grasp of his young campaign manager, Lee Atwater.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2018
In crossing crowded thoroughfares I found I had to be, if anything, more lively in avoiding vehicles, and it was strikingly impressed upon me that my life had cheapened in direct ratio with my clothes.
From The People of the Abyss by Jack London
