及物动词降低质量（地位、价格等）; 降低（硬币的）价值，贬值
及物动词
1. Greed had debased his character.
贪婪降低了他的品格。
1. 贬低：debar 禁止 | debase 贬低 | debate 讨论,争论
2. 质量变坏：质量比电阻 mass specific resistance | 质量变坏 debase | 质量标度 mass scale
3. 贬低,贬损：basement 地下室 | debase 贬低,贬损 | mansion 大厦
4. 贬低,降低：defend防护, 辩护, 防卫, [律]作...的辩护律师 | debase 贬低,降低 | deadline最终期限
1. 降低…的价值（或质量）；使贬值
To debase something means to reduce its value or quality.
e.g. Politicians have debased the meaning of the word 'freedom'...
政客们贬低了“自由”一词的意义。
e.g. He said parliament and the process of democracy had been debased.
他说议会和民主程序已遭贬值。
1. debase
1. In China, no VIP would debase himself by sitting with the hoi polloi.
2. Academicians should realize that lending their fair names to such endeavors would only debase them.
verb
1. corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
e.g. adulterate liquor
Synonym: load adulterate stretch dilute
2. lower in value by increasing the base-metal content
Synonym: alloy
3. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
e.g. debauch the young people with wine and women
Socrates was accused of corrupting young men
Do school counselors subvert young children?
corrupt the morals
Synonym: corrupt pervert subvert demoralize demoralise debauch profane vitiate deprave misdirect