Antonyms for debase
| 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
- 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
Synonyms for debase
- abase
- animalize
- bastardize
- bemean
- bestialize
- cast down
- cheapen
- contaminate
- corrupt
- cripple
- damage
- debauch
- debilitate
- defile
- demean
- demoralize
- deprave
- depreciate
- devaluate
- devalue
- disable
- disgrace
- dishonor
- doctor
- dope up
- drag down
- dump on
- enfeeble
- fluff off
- humble
- humiliate
- impair
- load
- lower
- pervert
- pollute
- put away
- put down
- reduce
- sap
- shoot down
- sink
- sophisticate
- spoil
- taint
- take down
- take down a peg
- undermine
- vitiate
- weaken
- weight
- worsen
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