Debase Mnemonic
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debase
debase
/dɪˈbeɪs/
adulterate
degrade
demean
Examples
- Adulterate and debase are synonymous with respect to coinage but deface is not.
- Debasement is the practice of lowering the value of currency.
- Debasement lowers the value of the coinage, causing inflation.
- The notion is practically a debasement of science.
- Inflation originally referred to the debasement of the currency.
- It debases the whole point of writing as an art.
- It would debase and devalue the Wikipedia project.
- To do is actually to debase the word revolution.
- Currency debasement is planned inflation, as a government policy.
- He was a seducer and a debaser of women, a glutton and a drunk.
corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
verb
lower in value by increasing the base-metal content
verb
corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
verb
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"De + Base. Lower the base, reduce its value and grace."
"De + Base. Lower the base, decreasing its value."
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