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• v  corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
• v  lower in value by increasing the base-metal content
• v  corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones

• Let your industries fall behind, or allow inflation to debase the value of your money, and its global standing will decline.
• He promised that if he disagrees with someone, he is not going to debase them in the public arena.
• What was the policy in 2000 and before? Is this discussion because of our current "enemy"? Do we have to debase ourselves for their benefit?.

• corrupt
• pervert
• subvert
• demoralize
• demoralise
• debauch
• profane
• vitiate
• deprave
• misdirect
• alloy
• load
• adulterate
• stretch
• dilute

News & Articles

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• Blackrock Says It Added to Bets on Yen’s Decline on BOJ Policy
  BlackRock Inc. (BLK) , the world’s biggest money manager, said it added to a bet that the yen would weaken, citing the potential for the Bank of Japan to add to economic stimulus measures that tend to debase the currency.
  June 6, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• Jim Rogers in International Herald Tribune
  It's the official policy of the central bank and the US to debase the currency,said Rogers, a former partner of George Soros.
• Chuck Hagel in Boston Globe (registration)
  My goodness, you've got 100 United States senators. Some of us might be moderately intelligent enough to figure this out. We would, I think, debase our system and fail our country if we don't do this,Hagel told ABC's "This Week."