meaning of debase

1. 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.
2.
corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate ">liquor"


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