debase

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• UK: /dɪˈbeɪs/
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• rhymes with -eɪs
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• CMU ARPABET: D AH0 B EY1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From de- + base, from Old French bas, from Latin bassus. Cognate with Spanish debajo (“under, beneath, below”). Compare abase.

41 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: ստորացնել (storacʻnel) — lower in character, etc
• Azerbaijani: alçaltmaq — lower in character, etc
• Bashkir: кәмһетеү (kəmhetew) — lower in character, etc
• Bulgarian: понижавам (ponižavam) — lower in character, etc
• Bulgarian: унижавам (unižavam) — lower in character, etc
• Chinese Mandarin: 貶低 /贬低 (biǎndī) — lower in character, etc
• Czech: znehodnotit — lower in character, etc
• Czech: ponížit — lower in character, etc
• Esperanto: malaltigi — lower in character, etc
• Finnish: huonontaa — lower in character, etc
• Finnish: heikentää — lower in character, etc
• French: abâtardir — lower in character, etc
• German: erniedrigen — lower in character, etc
• German: entwürdigen — lower in character, etc
• German: herabsetzen — lower in character, etc
• German: mindern — lower in character, etc
• German: verschlechtern — lower in character, etc
• German: abwerten — lower in character, etc
• German: verderben — lower in character, etc
• German: herabwürdigen — lower in character, etc
• Greek: υποβαθμίζω (ypovathmízo) — lower in character, etc
• Greek: υποτιμώ (ypotimó) — lower in character, etc
• Greek: εξευτελίζω (exeftelízo) — lower in character, etc
• Hungarian: lealacsonyít — lower in character, etc
• Hungarian: lekicsinyel — lower in character, etc
• Hungarian: lefitymál — lower in character, etc
• Hungarian: fitymál — lower in character, etc
• Irish: truailligh — lower in character, etc
• Italian: avvilire — lower in character, etc
• Japanese: 変造する (henzou suru) — lower in character, etc
• Māori: whakatautauhea — lower in character, etc
• Māori: whakatautauwhea — lower in character, etc
• Norwegian Bokmål: nedverdige — lower in character, etc
• Portuguese: rebaixar — lower in character, etc
• Romagnol: adulterêr — lower in character, etc
• Romanian: degrada — lower in character, etc
• Russian: унижать (unižatʹ) — lower in character, etc
• Spanish: envilecer — lower in character, etc
• Spanish: degradar — lower in character, etc
• Spanish: viciar — lower in character, etc
• Ottoman Turkish: بوزمق (bozmak) — lower in character, etc