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coarsen: make less subtle or refined; "coarsen one's ideals"; make or become coarse or coarser; "coarsen the surface"; "Their minds coarsened"

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devalue collapse: lower the value or quality of; "The tear devalues the painting"; remove the value from; deprive of its value

vulgarize collapse: act in a vulgar manner; "The drunkard tends to vulgarize"

roughen collapse: make rough or rougher; "roughen the surfaces so they will stick to each other"

popularize collapse: make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"; cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use; "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"

horripilate collapse: cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps; "Hitchcock movies horripilate me"; have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps; "I horripilate when I see violence on television"

deflower collapse: deprive of virginity; "This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village"

desecrate collapse: remove the consecration from a person or an object; violate the sacred character of a place or language; "desecrate a cemetery"; "violate the sanctity of the church"; "profane the name of God"

contaminate collapse: make radioactive by adding radioactive material; "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated"

adulterate collapse: mixed with impurities; corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor"

granulate collapse: form granulating tissue; "wounds and ulcers can granulate"; become granular; form into grains

cheapen collapse

deprave collapse

vitiate collapse

denature collapse: make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes; modify (as a native protein) especially by heat, acid, alkali, or ultraviolet radiation so that all of the original properties are removed or diminished; add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb

ravish collapse

infect collapse: contaminate with a disease or microorganism; communicate a disease to; "Your children have infected you with this head cold"; affect in a contagious way; "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"; contaminate with ideas or an ideology; "society was infected by racism"

prostitute collapse: a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; sell one's body; exchange sex for money

gnarl collapse: twist into a state of deformity; "The wind has gnarled this old tree"

knob collapse: a round handle; a circular rounded projection or protuberance; an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger

tooth collapse: a means of enforcement; "the treaty had no teeth in it"; toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell; something resembling the tooth of an animal; one of a number of uniform projections on a gear; hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense

pollute collapse: make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"

canker collapse: an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth); a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark; infect with a canker; become infected with a canker

debauch collapse

degrade collapse: lower the grade of something; reduce its worth; reduce the level of land, as by erosion

debase collapse: lower in value by increasing the base-metal content

distort collapse

misuse collapse: improper or excessive use

despoil collapse

pervert collapse: a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior; change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers"

pimple collapse: a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne

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