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debasing

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noun

debasing

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verb

present participle of debase
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for debasing
Adjective
  • Utilities can ask similar questions about households with pool pumps or those that show signs of inefficient or degrading appliances.
    Abhay Gupta, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • But while the Internet is torn over whether Carpenter’s submissive position on the Man’s Best Friend cover is funny or degrading, Whoopi Goldberg was more concerned with something else.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 12 June 2025
Adjective
  • Jeff is a bit of a voyeur or peeping Tom, though not in a perverted way.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
  • These were the years in which capitalism shed its pitiless light on the absurd British soul, with its deep striations of caste and station, its postcolonial taint, most of all its perverted emotional core, full of love and loathing for its own extremes of domination and servitude.
    Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • But the racial order of the day also made these jobs, which were physically challenging to begin with, especially demeaning, humiliating, and fraught with danger.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 21 June 2025
  • Being high and coerced into this demeaning lifestyle.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • When caterpillars retreat to their cocoons, part of the process of transformation can be aesthetically unbecoming and grotesque.
    Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • There were a lot of memorable performances and moments for the Blue Jackets, who bounced back quickly after having their seven-game point streak snapped in a rather unbecoming outing Monday against the New York Islanders.
    Aaron Portzline, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Poor data quality can provide wrong models and alerts, discrediting predictive monitoring.
    Hrushikesh Deshmukh, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Johnson released new guidelines for reporting gifts Wednesday after discrediting the investigation.
    Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Read: The price of humiliating Nicolás Maduro Now Machado appears to be trying to reconcile both sides.
    Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 20 June 2025
  • There’s a lot in there that could have been very humiliating—for myself, too.
    Merve Emre, New Yorker, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • Dupree has Tourette Syndrome, and her symptoms include vocal tics and profane outbursts as a result of coprolalia.
    William Earl, Variety, 17 June 2025
  • Nearby buildings and the sidewalk were tagged with profane graffiti slogans against ICE and Trump's name crossed out.
    CBS News, CBS News, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • This natural degradation in data characteristics means an AI that once performed well might start making errors as its environment evolves.
    Ronen Cojocaru, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • Despite the degradation of its military capabilities, Iran can leverage proxies, criminal organizations abroad, and cyberattacks to hit Israeli, and possibly U.S., targets.
    Nakissa Jahanbani, The Conversation, 20 June 2025
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“Debasing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/debasing. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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