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41corrupt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. demoralize, vitiate, deprave, defile, degrade, debase, debauch; bribe, pervert; contaminate, spoil, taint. adj. wicked, demoralized, immoral, impure, dissolute, depraved, profligate, base; vicious; …
42pervert — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. apostasize, distort, twist, garble, debase, misrepresent, corrupt, mislead, misinterpret, misstate; equivocate. See distortion, falsehood. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. ruin, vitiate, debase, divert; see …
43adulterate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. mix, water down, weaken, dilute; debase, corrupt. See deterioration, mixture, weakness. Ant., purify, clarify. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. weaken, mix with, intermix, alloy, amalgamate, dilute, water… …
44degrade — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. humiliate, shame, debase, demean; degenerate. See deterioration, disrepute. Ant., elevate, honor. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To humble] Syn. demote, discredit, diminish; see humble . 2. [To corrupt] Syn.… …
45abase — abase, demean, debase, degrade, humble, humiliate are synonymous when they denote to lower in one’s own estimation or in that of others. Abase suggests loss of dignity or prestige without necessarily implying permanency in that loss. When used… …
46adulterate — adul·ter·ate /ə dəl tə ˌrāt/ vt at·ed, at·ing: to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element; esp: to prepare for sale by omitting a valuable ingredient or by replacing more valuable ingredients… …
47debauch — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. corrupt, ruin. See impurity. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. debase, deprave, defile; see corrupt 1 , seduce . See Synonym Study at debase . III (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To ruin utterly in character or… …
48demean — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. debase, lower. See humility. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. lower, debase, humble, degrade, depreciate, *take down a peg, disgrace, humiliate, demote, shame. ANT.: elevate, *put on a pedestal,… …
49bastardize — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. debase, pervert, degrade, adulterate; see corrupt 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. debase, defile, degrade, adulterate, corrupt, ruin, spoil. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To ruin utterly in character or quality:… …
50deprave — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. pervert, debase, degrade; see corrupt 1 . See Synonym Study at debase . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To ruin utterly in character or quality: annualize, bastardize, bestialize, brutalize, canker, corrupt, debase, debauch …
