"Debase" is a word in ENGLISH
To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth,
dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate;
to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by
frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.
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Pigs don't look very smart to me. Sure, they are. You ever see a sow try to make a silk purse out of a farmer's ear?
To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.
Read the complete definitionTo reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character …
Read the complete definitionTo debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Read the complete definitionTo bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate.
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