Clues for the word "DEBASE"
We've had 37 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 85 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on October 08, 2025.
Definition of debase
- a. - 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.
Referring Clues
- Adulterate
- Cheapen
- Pollute
- Knock down
- Lower the value of, as currency
- Lower in quality
- Corrupt morally
- Knock down a peg
- Put down
- Reduce in value
- Lower
- Lower in rank
- Lower in dignity
- Lower in value
- Lower in status
- Humiliate
- Reduce in status
- Dishonor
- Reduce the value of
- Vulgarize
- Contaminate
- Corrupt
- Demoralize
- Lower moral character between the sheets upset Home Counties
- Demean
- Lower - corrupt
- Lower by degrees into river
- Seabed (anag)
- Sea bed made lower
- Corrupt scholars in river
- Degrade
- Belittle
- Lower to the sea bed, strangely enough
- Lower to the sea bed?
- Bring down in status
- Besmirch
- Strip of dignity
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - October 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 27, 2025
- Daily American - December 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 30, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - August 23, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - March 07, 2023
- Daily American - December 14, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - July 11, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - October 09, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - August 07, 2017
- Universal - July 26, 2017
- Universal - June 20, 2017
- Universal - March 02, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - February 14, 2017
- Daily American - December 14, 2016
- Netword - December 04, 2016
- USA Today - November 30, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 29, 2016
- Netword - April 24, 2016
- Netword - March 18, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - February 23, 2016
- Universal - December 03, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 20, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 18, 2015
- New York Times - December 04, 2014
- Washington Post - September 29, 2014
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 10, 2014
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