| 单词 | debase |
| 释义 | de·base 1. obsolete 2. < debase himself by physical labor > : put to a low or inferior use < a style debased by many imitators > 3. < struggle with Hannibal had … debased the Roman temper — John Buchan > 4. a. b. Synonyms: < the human values cruelly and systematically debased by the Nazis — Vera M. Dean > < Strachey's attitude toward a respected historical figure and his new techniques were soon debased by a school of so-called debunking biographers — J.D.Hart > vitiate is applicable to the introduction or effect of something deleterious and the ensuing destruction of purity, impairment of validity, or enervation of effectiveness < party jealousies vitiated the whole military organization — Times Literary Supplement > < his endless muttering vitiated every effort I made to think out a line of action — H.G.Wells > deprave indicates moral deterioration into the obscene and vicious < the servants, wicked and depraved, corrupt and deprave the children; the children are bad, full of evil, to a sinister degree — Henry James †1916 > corrupt indicates bringing about a loss of soundness, purity, and integrity < at sixteen the girl was further corrupted by a “perverse and wicked” young man — Edmund Wilson > < the ballot box, corrupted, no longer recorded the voice of the people — Oscar Handlin > < to corrupt their taste first and try to purify it afterwards — Bertrand Russell > debauch usually suggests corrupting and vulgarizing through sensual pleasure or other indulgence with loss of sense of morality, loyalty, duty, integrity, and resolution < she takes them to an enchanted isle, where she debauches them with enervating delights and renders them oblivious to their duty — R.A.Hall b. 1911 > < readers debauched by sentimental and romantic liberalism and naturalism — Douglas Bush > pervert suggests a debasing twisting or contorting into an untrue or abnormal condition < those who pervert good words to careless misuse may be thought more often ludicrous than harmful — J.M.Barzun > < those who pervert honest criticism into falsification of fact — F.D.Roosevelt > < sexually perverted during his term in prison > |
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