debase
Example Sentences
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The Constitution’s framers wanted to prevent the President from abusing monetary power and debasing the currency as English monarchs had done.
These stories tell us that Diogenes was chased out of his native Sinope, on the north coast of what’s now Turkey, for his supposed role in a scheme to debase the city’s currency.
Yet she knows the history that reduced her to such a debased state.
From Los Angeles Times
Institutions, acting in their own interest, are debasing America’s pool of young, human capital.
Argentina has a history of debasing its currency, which is why its people keep billions of dollars in coffee cans, home safes and mattresses.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
