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debase

verb
/dɪˈbeɪs/UK

Etymology

From de- + base, from Old French bas, from Latin bassus. Cognate with Spanish debajo (“under, beneath, below”). Compare abase.

  1. derived from bassus
  2. derived from bas

Definitions

  1. To lower in character, quality, or value

    To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.

  2. To lower in position or rank.

  3. To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.

The neighborhood

Derived

debased, debasedness, debasement, debaser, debasingly, undebased

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at debase. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at debase. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at debase

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA