单词 | debasement |
释义 | debasement (once / 11047 pages) n WORD FAMILY debasement: debasements+/debase: debased, debasement, debaser, debases, debasing/debaser: debasers/debasing: debasingly USAGE EXAMPLESIn a 2012 speech, President Obama said such human trafficking “ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity.” Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Another compared the dinner with a subplot from HBO’s “Game of Thrones” involving a psychopath’s grotesque physical and emotional debasement of a nobleman’s son. Washington Post(Dec 09, 2016) You see this coarsening climate of relations around the globe, in the debasement of the norms that make civilized life possible. Washington Post(Oct 11, 2016) 1n being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating Syn|Hyper adulteration impureness, impurity the condition of being impure 2n changing to a lower state (a less respected state) Syn|Hypo|Hyper degradation dehumanisation, dehumanization the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities animalisation, animalization, brutalisation, brutalizationan act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities barbarisation, barbarizationan act that makes people primitive and uncivilized bastardisation, bastardizationan act that debases or corrupts corruption, subversiondestroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity demoralisation, demoralizationdestroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy constipation, deadening, impairment, stultificationthe act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) popularisation, popularization, vulgarisation, vulgarizationthe act of making something attractive to the general public profanationdegradation of something worthy of respect; cheapening abasement, humiliationdepriving one of self-esteem vulgarisation, vulgarizationthe act of rendering something coarse and unrefined comedowndecline to a lower status or level change of state the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics |
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