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Debasing Synonyms and Antonyms

Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. loading
  2. diluting
  3. sophisticating
  4. stretching
  5. adulterating
  6. doctoring
Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. vitiating
  2. perverting
  3. depraving
  4. debauching
  5. corrupting
  6. abasing
  7. lowering
  8. demeaning
  9. demoralizing
  10. cheapening
  11. degrading
  12. misdirecting
  13. warping
  14. humbling
  15. vilifying
  16. sullying
  17. stooping
  18. stigmatizing
  19. spoiling
  20. sinking
  21. staining
  22. shaming
  23. reviling
  24. reducing
  25. polluting
  26. minimizing
  27. profaning
  28. impairing
  29. devaluing
  30. humiliating
  31. bastardizing
  32. harming
  33. dishonoring
  34. alloying
  35. disgracing
  36. discrediting
  37. deteriorating
  38. denigrating
  39. degenerating
  40. cankering
  41. defiling
  42. subverting
  43. defaming
  44. brutalizing
  45. contaminating
  46. belittling
  47. adulterating
  48. animalizing
Antonyms:
  1. valuing
  2. enhancing
  3. elevating
  4. improving
  5. praising
  6. clearing
  7. lauding
  8. cleaning
  9. honoring
  10. upgrading
  11. purifying
To lower in character or quality
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. downgrading
  2. demeaning
  3. degrading
  4. cheapening
Used of conduct; characterized by dishonor
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. degrading

Debasing Sentence Examples

  • It is generally and traditionally praised, but those who have read it will be more disposed to agree with Charles Lamb, who considers it "of a vile and debasing tendency," and thinks it "almost impossible to suppose the author in earnest."

  • At last that final expedient of weak governments, the debasing of the coinage, led to a crisis.

  • The history of furs can be read in Marco Polo, as he grows eloquent with the description of the rich skins of the khan of Tatary; in the early fathers of the church, who lament their introduction into Rome and Byzantium as an evidence of barbaric and debasing luxury; in the political history of Russia, stretching out a powerful arm over Siberia to secure her rich treasures; in the story of the French occupation of Canada, and the ascent of the St Lawrence to Lake Superior, and the subsequent contest to retain possession against England; in the history of early settlements of New England, New York and Virginia; in Irving's Astoria; in the records of the Hudson's Bay Company; and in the annals of the fairs held at Nizhniy Novgorod and Leipzig.

  • By debasing the coinage he hastened the decay of Byzantine commerce.

  • As the stronger side of Gotama's teaching was neglected, the debasing belief in rites and ceremonies, and charms and incantations, which had been the especial object of his scorn, began to spread like the Birana weed warmed by a tropical sun in marsh and muddy soil.

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