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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | belittle, disgrace |
| Synonyms: | abase, bemean, cast down, condescend, debase, degrade, deign, demean, depress, devalue, downgrade, humble, humiliate, stoop |
| Antonyms: | compliment, laud, praise |
| Main Entry: | poison |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | contaminate, pollute |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, corrupt, debase, defile, deprave, destroy, envenom, fester, harm, infect, injure, kill, make ill, murder, pervert, stain, subvert, taint, undermine, vitiate, warp |
| Antonyms: | purify, sterilize |
| Main Entry: | pollute |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make dirty; corrupt |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, alloy, befoul, besmirch, contaminate, debase, debauch, defile, deprave, desecrate, dirty, dishonor, foul, infect, make filthy, mar, poison, profane, soil, spoil, stain, sully, taint, violate |
| Antonyms: | clean, cleanse, purify |
| Main Entry: | profane |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defile, desecrate |
| Synonyms: | abuse, be evil, befoul, blaspheme, commit sacrilege, commit sin, contaminate, curse, cuss, damn, darn, debase, despoil, do wrong, flame, hoodoo, misuse, mock, mudsling, pervert, pollute, prostitute, put double whammy on, revile, scorn, swear, talk dirty, tar, trash, vice, violate, vitiate, voodoo |
| Antonyms: | cleanse, purify |
| Main Entry: | prostitute |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | to put one's talent to an unworthy use |
| Synonyms: | abuse, cheapen, corrupt, debase, debauch, degrade, demean, deprave, devalue, misapply, misemploy, misuse, pervert, profane, vitiate |
| Main Entry: | reduce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make less; decrease |
| Synonyms: | abate, abridge, bankrupt, bant, break, cheapen, chop, clip, contract, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, debase, deflate, depreciate, depress, diet, dilute, diminish, discount, drain, dwindle, go on a diet, impair, impoverish, lessen, lose weight, lower, mark down, moderate, nutshell, pare, pauperize, rebate, recede, roll back, ruin, scale down, shave, shorten, slash, slim, slow down, step down, take off weight, taper, taper off, tone down, trim, truncate, turn down, weaken, wind down |
| Notes: | reduce means to cut down on; minimize means to make small or insignificant or represent as less important |
| Antonyms: | expand, extend, grow, increase, raise, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | rot |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | corrode, deteriorate |
| Synonyms: | break down, corrupt, crumble, debase, debauch, decay, decline, decompose, degenerate, demoralize, deprave, descend, disimprove, disintegrate, fester, go bad, go downhill, go to pot, languish, molder, perish, pervert, putrefy, retrograde, sink, spoil, stain, taint, turn, warp, waste away, wither, worsen |
| Antonyms: | build, flourish, grow |
| Main Entry: | shame |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disgrace, embarrass |
| Synonyms: | abash, blot, confound, cut down to size, debase, defile, degrade, disconcert, discredit, dishonor, give a black eye, humble, humiliate, mortify, reproach, ridicule, shoot down, smear, stain, take down a peg, take down |
| Antonyms: | be proud, honor, regard, respect |
| Main Entry: | sink |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be humble or humbled |
| Synonyms: | abase, be reduced to, bemean, cast down, debase, degrade, demean, humiliate, lower, stoop, succumb |
| Antonyms: | brave, fight |
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