Debase /(?)/

De·base

Debase

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Debased; p. pr. & vb. n. Debasing

  1. 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.
    — Hale.
    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.