Found 4 hits - Term: debased, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
debased \debased"\, a. her.
turned upside down from its proper position; inverted;
reversed.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
debase \debase"\, v. t. imp. p. p. debased; p. pr. vb.
n. debasing. pref. de- + base. see base, a., and cf.
abase.
to reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth,
dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to
deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime;
to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar
words.
1913 webster
the coin which was adulterated and debased. --hale.
1913 webster
it is a kind of taking god's name in vain to debase
religion with such frivolous disputes. --hooker.
1913 webster
and to debase the sons, exalts the sires. --pope.
syn: to abase; degrade. see abase.
1913 webster
see also:
debased debasing base abase
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
debased
adj 1: mixed with impurities syn: adulterate, adulterated
2: lowered in value; "the dollar is low"; "a debased currency"
syn: devalued, degraded
3: ruined in character or quality syn: corrupted, vitiated
see also:
adulterate adulterated devalued degraded corrupted vitiated
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
106 moby thesaurus words for "debased":
abandoned, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, base, beggarly,
cheesy, contaminated, contemptible, corrupt, corrupted, couchant,
crouched, crummy, debauched, decadent, degenerate, degraded,
depraved, depressed, despicable, deteriorated, dirty, disgusting,
dissolute, downcast, downthrown, execrable, fallen, flagrant, flat,
foul, fulsome, grave, gross, heinous, knee-high, knocked flat,
laid low, little, low, low-built, low-down, low-hung, low-level,
low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured, lowered, lumpen,
mangy, mean, measly, miserable, monstrous, morally polluted, neap,
nefarious, obnoxious, odious, paltry, perverted, petty, poky,
polluted, poor, profligate, prone, prostrate, rank, recumbent,
reduced, reprobate, reptilian, rotten, runty, scabby, scrubby,
scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shoddy, short, small, squalid,
squat, squatty, steeped in iniquity, stooped, stumpy, submerged,
sunk, sunken, supine, tainted, unelevated, unmentionable,
vice-corrupted, vile, vitiate, vitiated, warped, wretched
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