All 5 Uses of

debase

in

The Ramayana

How art thou, born of royal race, Blind to the crimes that kings debase?†
Book 2

Her lord, with noble virtues graced, Her lord, by lack of all debased, Is still a God in woman's eyes, If duty's law she hold and prize.†
Book 2 *

But he whom sensual joys debase Heeds not the claim of time and place, And sees not with his blinded sight His duty or his gain aright.†
Book 4

…with her wild despair, Sad as a lady born again To misery and woe and pain, Now doomed to grief and low estate, Once noble fair and delicate: Like faded light of holy lore, Like Hope when all her dreams are o'er; Like ruined power and rank debased, Like majesty of kings disgraced: Like worship foiled by erring slips, The moon that labours in eclipse; A pool with all her lilies dead, An army when its king has fled: So sad and helpless wan and worn, She lay among the fiends forlorn.†
Book 5

Definition:

(debase)
to degrade (decrease) the purity, quality, or status of something -- often morality or metals