1 [of language] corrupción; (f) [of person, culture, tradition] degradación; (f) TVS ran a display advertisement showing a partly dressed woman, purporting to be an Italian housewife, stripping on television and exemplifying the debasement of Italian television by unregulated commercial interests It should be done in an inner sanctum, so to speak, just really for the practitioners themselves, and it should not be a public spectacle # And so in that sense any public performance of this is a debasement there has been a lot written recently about the debasement of popular culture I should like to work out what seems to me to be the gradual debasement and oppression of women, from about the third century AD to the nineteenth # and even the twentieth century
2 [of currency] devaluación; (f) When their tax revenues ran out and they had reached the limits of what they could borrow, they made peace rather than resort to the wholesale debasement of their currencies
