cheapen
verb (used with object)
to make cheap or cheaper.
was cheapening
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past progressiveof cheapen.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Neighbors complained that Mrs. Morris was cheapening the neighborhood, took court action.
From Time Magazine Archive
We found him ensconced behind piles of musty and greasy manuscripts, surrounded by scholars and scribes, with whom he was cheapening books.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Monsieur Ramin smiled, rubbed his hands, and joked merrily with a dark-eyed grisette, who was cheapening some ribbon for her cap.
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850 by Various
He stopped before the shop, and while he was cheapening some articles, we examined his sabre.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
