debasing 1 of 3

present participle of debase
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debasing

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adjective

debasing

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noun

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of debasing
Noun
For decades, bartenders have been defaming the Mai Tai, debasing it, making and selling versions of the drink that were childish and incomplex, saccharine and flat. Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for debasing
Verb
  • Carbon capture challenges Hiegel explained that carbon capture remains hindered by high energy demands, poor flexibility with industrial loads, costly infrastructure requirements, and health and safety risks from degrading chemicals, all of which slow its adaptability.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Over time, these substances may infiltrate groundwater, creating serious long-term health concerns, degrading habitats, and endangering communities that rely on those resources.
    Michaela Rychetska, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This announcement, humiliating the involved member, is harmful.
    Kelly G. Richardson, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • For decades, Indigenous leaders and advocates across the state and country have been trying to convince school communities that the use of such mascots and logos are inappropriate, demeaning and harmful.
    Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • One detainee who submitted an account to the court that was referenced by Gregorio described sleeping in foul-smelling facilities and facing demeaning treatment by ICE agents.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • In a searing rebuttal days before the British socialite was convicted for procuring victims for Epstein’s abuse in December 2021, Comey spoke to the perverted duo’s reasons for targeting teens from disadvantaged backgrounds.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 17 July 2025
  • Jeff is a bit of a voyeur or peeping Tom, though not in a perverted way.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Bailouts Government bailouts contribute to monetary debasement via the creation of new money, which dilutes the currency’s value and fuels inflation.
    Alex Pron, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Tales From Beyond the Pale co-creator Glenn McQuaid unleashes a Jason Voorhees whose appearance is concealed not by a hockey mask but a squiggly blur of video noise, corrupting the handheld footage of him stalking college kids through the woods.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The additional time exposed to harsh radiation is, not surprisingly, corrupting JunoCam's images.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • There would be accusations of race manipulation, an online mob discrediting Wallace’s win as undeserved, and an angry Joe Gibbs Racing organization, which would now realize Hamlin puts another team’s interests ahead of their own.
    Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Further discrediting itself, Thursday’s writeup includes a marketing pitch for the SquareX platform.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • This sub is routinely very humbling.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025

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“Debasing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/debasing. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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