Synonyms of the word

debase

• v. (transitive) To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To lower in position or rank.
• v. (transitive) To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.

adulterate

• adj. Tending to commit adultery.
• adj. Corrupted; impure; adulterated.
• v. To corrupt.
• v. To spoil by adding impurities.
• v. To commit adultery.
• v. To defile by adultery.

alloy

• n. A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal.
• n. An admixture; something added which stains, taints etc.
• v. To mix or combine; often used of metals.
• v. To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance.
• v. (figuratively) To impair or debase by mixture.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

corrupt

• adj. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
• adj. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
• adj. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
• v. (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave;…
• v. (intransitive) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
• v. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
• v. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

debauch

• n. An individual act of debauchery.
• n. An orgy.
• v. (transitive) To morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.
• v. (transitive) To debase (something); to lower the value of (something).

demoralise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of demoralize.

demoralize

• v. (American) To destroy morale; to dishearten.

deprave

• v. (transitive) To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.
• v. (transitive) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.

devalue

• v. To lower or remove the value of something.
• v. To lose value; to depreciate.

dilute

• v. (transitive) To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution; especially by adding water.
• v. (transitive) To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
• v. (transitive, stock market) To cause the value of individual shares to decrease by increasing the total…
• v. (intransitive) To become attenuated, thin, or weak.
• adj. Having a low concentration.
• adj. Weak; reduced in strength due to dilution, diluted.

misdirect

• v. To direct something wrongly.
• v. To put the incorrect address on a mail item.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

pervert

• n. (dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense…
• n. A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.
• v. (transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
• v. (transitive) To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to…
• v. To misapply; to misinterpret designedly.
• v. (intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

profane

• adj. Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
• adj. Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
• adj. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
• adj. Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain.
• n. A person or thing that is profane.
• n. (freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
• v. (transitive) To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to…
• v. (transitive) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

spoil

• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
• v. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
• v. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
• v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
• v. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
• v. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
• n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
• n. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or…

stretch

• v. (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
• v. (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
• v. (transitive) To pull tight.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
• v. (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity…
• v. (intransitive) To extend to a limit point.
• v. (transitive) To increase.
• v. (obsolete, colloquial) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
• v. (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
• n. An act of stretching.
• n. The ability to lengthen when pulled.
• n. A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief.
• n. A segment of a journey or route.
• n. A segment or length of material.
• n. (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead…
• n. (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman…
• n. A length of time.
• n. (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
• n. (Ireland, idiomatic) extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared…

subvert

• v. (transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
• v. (transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
• v. (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
• n. An advertisement created by subvertising.

vitiate

• v. (transitive) to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
• v. (transitive) to debase or morally corrupt.
• v. (transitive, archaic) to violate, to rape.
• v. (transitive) to make something ineffective, to invalidate.