disbase

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/dɪsˈbeɪs/

verb

To debase or degrade.

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Meanings

verbdisbase (third-person singular simple present disbases, present participle disbasing, simple past and past participle disbased)

present singular third person disbases · participle present disbasing · participle past disbased · past disbased

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo debase or degrade.

    Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbas'd myself.

    1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii

Origin

From dis- + base. Compare debase.

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MLA

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Chicago

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