debase
verb (used with object)
to reduce in quality or value; adulterate.
has debased
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present perfectof debase (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“The Benson Center has debased the standards of this institution with the annual appointment of visiting scholars who frequently champion harmful language and actions — including attending the January 6 insurrection,” the petition adds.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
Rapid growth, especially in the past decade, has debased much restaurant cooking, drowning the tastes and textures of dishes like fish-fragrant eggplant in gobs of acrid chili, oil and monosodium glutamate.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2016
But there are millions of other Italians, both male and female, who believe the media mogul's personal life has debased women, making Italy a laughing stock, and that he should now stand aside.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2011
Others, like former Pilot editor Philip Lawler, are grim: "To speak in economic terms," he says, "the inflation of annulment has debased the currency of marriage."
From Time Magazine Archive
It has debased their natural sentiments, as well as it has depressed and perverted their natural talents and virtues.
From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Augustus C. Hamlin
