To debase or lower the quality, value, or dignity of something; to reduce from a higher to lower state.
From dis- + base (from Late Latin basis, 'foundation'). This archaic verb meaning 'to lower' or 'to degrade' appeared in older English texts.
Disbase is a lost word — so thoroughly replaced by 'debase' that most modern speakers don't know it existed, yet it appears in Renaissance literature.
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