verb
- Reduce the level of land, as by erosion.
- synonyms: degrade
- Reduce in worth or character, usually verbally.
- usage: "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"
- Lower the grade of something; reduce its worth.
adjective
- Unrestrained by convention or morality.
- usage: "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
- synonyms: debauched, degenerate, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast
- Lowered in value.
- usage: "the dollar is low"; "a debased currency"
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