Lower vs Debauch - What's the difference?
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(low)
bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object
(geology, of strata or geological time periods) older
To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
to pull down
To reduce the height of
To depress as to direction
To make less elevated
To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
To bring down; to humble
(reflexive) (lower oneself ) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
To decrease in value, amount, etc.
An individual act of debauchery.
*1902 , Thomas Ebenezer Webb, The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence , page 242:
* 1913 , , The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu , ch. 25:
An orgy.
* 1955 , , Catch-22 , ch. 13:
To morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.
* 1727 , , The History of the Devil , ch. 9:
To debase (something); to lower the value of (something).
* 2014 March 23, , "
Lower is a related term of debauch.
In lang=en terms the difference between lower and debauch
is that lower is to decrease in value, amount, etc while debauch is to debase (something); to lower the value of (something).As verbs the difference between lower and debauch
is that lower is to let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down or lower can be while debauch is to morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.As an adjective lower
is (low).As an adverb lower
is .As a noun debauch is
an individual act of debauchery.lower
English
Etymology 1
From (low) +Adjective
(head)Antonyms
* (more low) higher * (bottom) upper * (older) upperAdverb
(head)Verb
(en verb)- lower a bucket into a well
- to lower a sail of a boat
- to lower a flag
- Lowered softly with a threefold cord of love / Down to a silent grave. .
- lower a fence or wall
- lower a chimney or turret
- lower the aim of a gun
- to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes
- lower the temperature
- lower one's vitality
- lower distilled liquors
- lower one's pride
- I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes.
- lower the price of goods
- lower the interest rate
- The river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
Synonyms
* bring down * shorten * * reduce * reduce, turn down * * be humble * cut, reduce * die off, drop, fall, fall off, shrink * become/get smaller, become/get lower, lessen, reduceEtymology 2
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*debauch
English
Noun
(es)- Greene died of a debauch ; and Marlowe, the gracer of tragedians, perished in an ignominious brawl.
- [T]he room probably was one which he actually used for opium debauches .
- [T]here were always the gay and silly sensual young girls that Yossarian had found and brought there and those that the sleepy enlisted men returning to Pianosa after their own exhausting seven-day debauch had brought there.
Verb
(es)- But the Devil had met with too much Success in his first Attempts, not to go on with his general Resolution of debauching the Minds of Men, and bringing them off from God.
Peter Hitchens's Blog: 23 March 2014 1:41 AM," The Mail on Sunday (UK) (retrieved 18 April 2014):
- [S]aving of all kinds is pointless when interest is microscopic and state-sponsored inflation is debauching the currency.