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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

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