Third person singular present tense of cheapen; reduces the price, value, or respectability of something.
Cheapen plus -s, the standard marker for third person singular present tense in English (he/she/it cheapens).
The construction of tense markers like -s in English is ancient—it comes from Old English -eth endings and shows how modern English simplified earlier, more complex verb conjugation systems.
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