debase
verb (used with object)
to reduce in quality or value; adulterate.
have debased
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present perfectof debase.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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He has indicated that he wants his court to stand above these institutions that have debased themselves with public access.
From Slate ● May 7, 2020
Not, of course, that all the Sadhus at Hardwar and Rishikes have debased their holy profession.
From Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell
Somehow, she felt it would not have debased her and humiliated her as had the pastor's attack.
From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hon. Agnes Blanche Marie Hay
I would not so have debased and degraded myself before any man to save my own life—what is my life worth me, after all?—but to save Christina, to save Christina, to save Christina!
From Strange Stories by Grant Allen
Her eye was downcast; yet did its stolen glances speak things, the secret consciousness of which would have debased the other in her own estimation beyond the hope of pardon.
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Henry William Herbert
