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Prosecutors said fighters raped village elders to publicly debase them.debase = decrease the status
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One American airman, shot down and relentlessly debased by his Japanese captors, described the state of mind that his captivity created: "I was literally becoming a lesser human being." (source)debased = treated as less-than-human
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Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this, partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sorts of parties. (source)debasement = degradation (decrease in the purity or quality)
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At Fairfax Brian and Clarissa clung to each other, exploiting what had happened to them, using my father's debasement as a varnish of cool they could coat themselves with by retelling throughout the school what had happened that night in the cornfield. (source)debasement = degradation (treatment as though of less value)
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It forbids people to practise their religion, the young are brought up godless, the Church is opposed and its property appropriated, anyone who thinks differently is terrorized, the free human nature of the German people is debased--and they are turned into terrified slaves. (source)debased = degraded (decreased)
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Hearing "civilized" languages debase humans ... I can say that my narrative project is as difficult today as it was thirty years ago. (source)debase = degrade
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The remarks grew ever more debased and treacherous so that Mr Charles - at least so he claimed - was obliged to intervene with the suggestion that such talk was bad form. (source)debased = lowered in character or quality
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It was a humiliation, a debasement.† (source)
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If they would kill a priest, why would they not kill a peasant without a second thought, or torture them for sport, or debase them. (source)debase = degrade
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"So long as we have wage slavery," answered Schliemann, "it matters not in the least how debasing and repulsive a task may be, it is easy to find people to perform it." (source)debasing = degrading
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He debases and humiliates them after death to show his disgust and his superiority.† (source)debases = degrades (decreases) the purity, quality, or status of something
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Then Nickel with its communal debasements.† (source)
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To all this conversation Don Quixote was listening very attentively, and sitting up in bed as well as he could, and taking the hostess by the hand he said to her, "Believe me, fair lady, you may call yourself fortunate in having in this castle of yours sheltered my person, which is such that if I do not myself praise it, it is because of what is commonly said, that self-praise debaseth; but my squire will inform you who I am.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She debaseth" in older English, today we say "She debases."
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The two women stood in the doorway of the hut gesticulating, talking not English but the debased French... (source)debased = degrade (decreased) the purity, quality, or status of something
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It's believed that the hollows can live thousands of years, but it is a life of constant physical torment, of humiliating debasement—feeding on stray animals, living in isolation—and of insatiable hunger for the flesh of their former kin, because our blood is their only hope for salvation.† (source)
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To do business with the godless is to debase the work of the Lord!† (source)debase = degrade ( decrease) the purity, quality, or status of something
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