debases是什么意思？

debases

• v. 降低质量（地位、价格等）( debase的第三人称单数 )，降低（硬币的）价值，贬值；

例句

• This sort of wrongdoing alienates us from the masses and the cadres and debases social morality. 这使我们脱离群众,脱离干部,把风气搞坏了.
• Such unkind action debases you. 这种不和善的行为贬低了你自己的人格.
• He weakens the body, darkens the intellect, and debases the soul. 他摧残人的身体, 蒙蔽人的理智, 腐化人的灵性.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  降低…的价值（或质量）；使贬值
  To debase something means to reduce its value or quality.
  例句
  Politicians have debased the meaning of the word 'freedom'... 政客们贬低了“自由”一词的意义。 He said parliament and the process of democracy had been debased. 他说议会和民主程序已遭贬值。