de·base
verb/dɪˈbeɪs/
/dɪˈbeɪs/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they debase | /dɪˈbeɪs/ /dɪˈbeɪs/ |
| he / she / it debases | /dɪˈbeɪsɪz/ /dɪˈbeɪsɪz/ |
| past simple debased | /dɪˈbeɪst/ /dɪˈbeɪst/ |
| past participle debased | /dɪˈbeɪst/ /dɪˈbeɪst/ |
| -ing form debasing | /dɪˈbeɪsɪŋ/ /dɪˈbeɪsɪŋ/ |
- debase somebody/something to make somebody/something less valuable or respected
降低…的价值；败坏…的名誉 - Sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.
体育运动因受商业赞助而降低了声誉。
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘humiliate, belittle’): from de- ‘down’ + the obsolete verb base (compare with abase), expressing the notion ‘bring down completely’. - Sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.