transitive. To cause to fade; to deprive of lustre, freshness, or vigour; cf. fade, v.1 3.

transitive. To lower in position, rank, or dignity; to abase. Obsolete.

transitive. To make worse or of inferior quality; to lower in character or excellence; to worsen.

transitive. To cause to fade or wither.

transitive. To cause (something) to become debased or degenerate; to adulterate or corrupt (something, esp. a language, body of knowledge, or other…

transitive. To render vile; to debase.

transitive. Chiefly literary. To affect like winter, to subject to wintry conditions; to make wintry; to chill, freeze. Chiefly figurative. Cf. winter…

transitive. To do the reverse of improving; to render worse in quality.

transitive. To cause to degenerate; to reduce to a lower or worse condition; to debase, degrade.

transitive. To make worse, deteriorate.

transitive. To render bastard or degenerate.

To lower in character or quality; to debase.

figurative. transitive. To penetrate through and through, esp. so as to render hollow, rotten, or weak; to undermine. Frequently in passive.

transitive. To turn (something) into a distorted, absurd, or inferior version of what it should be; to debase; to misrepresent; to make a travesty…