Abase vs. Debase

Abase and Debase Definitions
Abase
To lower in rank, prestige, or esteem.
Debase
To lower in character, quality, or value; degrade.
Abase
(transitive) To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
Debase
(transitive) To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
Abase
To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
To abase the eye
Debase
To lower in position or rank.
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Abase
To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.
Debase
(transitive) To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.
Abase
To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
Saying so, he abased his lance.
Debase
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.
The coin which was adulterated and debased.
It is a kind of taking God's name in vain to debase religion with such frivolous disputes.
And to debase the sons, exalts the sires.
Abase
To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade.
Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased.
Debase
Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality;
Debauch the young people with wine and women
Socrates was accused of corrupting young men
Do school counselors subvert young children?
Corrupt the morals
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Abase
Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of;
He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss
Debase
Lower in value by increasing the base-metal content
Debase
Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones;
Adulterate liquor