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

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peculate collapse

misappropriate collapse

bastardize collapse: declare a child to be illegitimate; change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms

sophisticate collapse: a worldly-wise person; make more complex or refined; "a sophisticated design"; alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"; make less natural or innocent; "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls"

push down collapse

demean collapse

abase collapse

mismanage collapse: manage badly or incompetently; "The funds were mismanaged"

abash collapse

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"

detract from collapse

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

embezzle collapse: appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"

pilfer collapse: make off with belongings of others

demote collapse: assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant"

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"

bear down collapse: exert a force or cause a strain upon; "This tax bears down on the lower middle class"; pay special attention to; "The lectures bore down on the political background"; exert full strength; "The pitcher bore down"; contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery

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

misapply collapse: apply to a wrong thing or person; apply badly or incorrectly; "The words are misapplied in this context"; "You are misapplying the name of this religious group"

mishandle collapse

belittle collapse

dilute collapse: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"

tamper with collapse

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"

minimize collapse: make small or insignificant; "Let's minimize the risk"; cause to seem less serious; play down; "Don't belittle his influence"

demoralize collapse: confuse or put into disorder; "the boss's behavior demoralized everyone in the office"

hold in contempt collapse

disapprove of collapse

cheapen collapse

humiliate collapse: cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"

deprave collapse

decry collapse

vitiate collapse

vilify collapse: spread negative information about; "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews"

defrock collapse: divest of the frock; of church officials

unfrock collapse

befoul 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

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