Abase vs. Debase

Abaseverb

(transitive) To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.

Abaseverb

To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.

Abaseverb

To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.

Abaseverb

To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.

Abaseverb

To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade.

Abaseverb

cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of;

Debaseverb

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

Debaseverb

To lower in position or rank.

Debaseverb

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

Debaseverb

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.

Debaseverb

corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality;

Debaseverb

lower in value by increasing the base-metal content

Debaseverb

corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones;