cheapen
verb
1 cheapen
Lower the grade of something; reduce its worth.
synonym: degrade.
Roget 794:
barter,
exchange,
swap,
swop†,
truck,
scorse†;
interchange
etc.
148;
commutate
etc.
(substitute)
147;
compound for.
trade,
traffic,
buy and sell,
give and take,
nundinate†;
carry on a trade,
ply a trade,
drive a trade;
be in business,
be in the city;
keep a shop,
deal in,
employ one's capital in.
trade with,
deal with,
have dealings with;
transact business with,
do business with;
open an account with,
keep an account with.
bargain;
drive a bargain,
make a bargain;
negotiate,
bid for;
haggle,
higgle†;
dicker [U.S.];
chaffer,
huckster,
cheapen,
beat down;
stickle,
stickle for;
out bid,
under bid;
ask,
charge;
strike a bargain
etc.
(contract)
769.
speculate,
give a sprat to catch a herring;
buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market,
buy low and sell high;
corner the market;
rig the market,
stag the market.
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Roget 819:
be parsimonious
etc.
adj.;
grudge,
begrudge,
stint,
pinch,
gripe,
screw,
dole out,
hold back,
withhold,
starve,
famish,
live upon nothing,
skin a flint.
drive a bargain,
drive a hard bargain;
cheapen,
beat down;
stop one hole in a sieve;
have an itching palm,
grasp,
grab.
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Dutch: afprijzen, degraderen
Moby thesaurus: adulterate, alloy, bargain, beat down, bid, bid for, break, canker, chaffer, coarsen, confound, contaminate, corrupt, cut, cut prices, debase, debauch, decline, decry, defile, deflate, deflower, degenerate, degrade, denature, deprave, depreciate, desecrate, despoil, devaluate, devalue, dicker, distort, dive, downgrade, drive a bargain, fall, fall in price, give way, haggle, higgle, huckster, infect, jew down, lower, mark down, misuse, negotiate, nose-dive, outbid, pare, pervert, plummet, plunge, poison, pollute, prostitute, ravage, ravish, reduce, sag, shave, slash, slump, taint, trim, twist, ulcerate, underbid, undervalue, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, write down, write off ... show more.
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