English > debasement: 2 senses > noun 2, act| Meaning | changing to a lower state (a less respected state). |
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| Synonym | degradation |
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| Narrower | barbarization, barbarisation | An act that makes people primitive and uncivilized |
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| bastardization, bastardisation | An act that debases or corrupts |
| brutalization, brutalisation, animalization, animalisation | An act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities |
| corruption, subversion | Destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty |
| dehumanization, dehumanisation | The act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities |
| demoralization, demoralisation | Destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy |
| humiliation, abasement | depriving one of self-esteem |
| popularization, popularisation, vulgarization, vulgarisation | The act of making something attractive to the general public |
| profanation | degradation of something worthy of respect |
| stultification, constipation, impairment, deadening | The act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) |
| vulgarization, vulgarisation | The act of rendering something coarse and unrefined |
| Broader | change of state | The act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics / characteristics |
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| Spanish | degradación |
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| Catalan | degradació, enviliment |
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| Verbs | debase | corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality |
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