debase
verb (used with object)
to reduce in quality or value; adulterate.
will debase
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future tenseof debase.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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That trade is based on the view that investors will turn to alternative assets like gold or bitcoin on worries that stubborn government deficits and higher inflation will debase currencies like the dollar.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Opponents say the changes will debase the 850-year-old cathedral and disturb the harmony of its Gothic design.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
“But if you attach the claim of national security to many of your domestic policy preferences, you will debase the coinage.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2017
The fear in the intellectual marketplace, as in the mercantile one, is always that cheap currency will debase good.
From Time Magazine Archive
If she remain a slave, she will debase you and your sons; and your country will come under the rule of tyranny.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
