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Grammar : Verb
Spell : dih-beys
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈbeɪs



Definition of debase

Origin :
  • 1560s, from de- "down" + base (adj.) "low," on analogy of abase (or, alternatively, from obsolete verb base "to abuse").
  • verb degrade, shame
  • verb adulterate
Example sentences :
  • Where is the man who will not debase himself if he be in want?
  • Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • It has pleased the gods to debase my House and to set up yours.
  • Extract from : « Morning Star » by H. Rider Haggard
  • Situations and circumstances ennoble the mind, or debase it.
  • Extract from : « A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. » by Benjamin Waterhouse
  • Instead of hallowing the life it will debase and impoverish it.
  • Extract from : « My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year » by John Henry Jowett
  • Do not debase yourself and become lower than the beasts of the field.
  • Extract from : « Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners » by B.G. Jefferis
  • By heaven, if time could so debase my soul I would spurn immortality.
  • Extract from : « Fiesco or, The Genoese Conspiracy » by Friedrich Schiller
  • If visions of truth and beauty can exalt, visions of vice can debase and degrade.
  • Extract from : « A Man's Value to Society » by Newell Dwight Hillis
  • I will not debase what I have to say by resorting to comparisons.
  • Extract from : « A Modern Chronicle, Complete » by Winston Churchill
  • I cannot understand how human beings can so debase themselves.
  • Extract from : « The Sorrows of Young Werther » by J.W. von Goethe
  • Prosperity and luxury, gradually extinguishing sympathy, and puffing up with pride, harden and debase the soul.
  • Extract from : « A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. » by William Wilberforce

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