Debasingly and Debasing
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
verb
- Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
- usage: "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children"; "corrupt the morals"
- Lower in value by increasing the base-metal content.
- Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones.
- usage: "adulterate liquor"
- synonyms: load, adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase
adjective
- Used of conduct; characterized by dishonor.
- synonyms: degrading
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Debase.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary