verb
definition
To decrease the value of; to make cheap
definition
To make vulgar
definition
To become cheaper
definition
To bargain for, ask the price of.
Examples of cheapen in a Sentence
Higher efficiencies also cheapen electricity charges and benefit the environment.
Keep in mind that free websites may have ads that can cheapen the look, but if you're not skilled at web design, it is probably the easier than designing your own site.
Thus the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (founded 1698), besides its other activities, has done much to cheapen and multiply copies of the Scriptures, not only in English and Welsh, but in many foreign languages.
There is not the slightest use or excuse for the application of sugar, except to cheapen the silk by about 15 to 20 Wild Silk Dyeing.
We only cheapen it by calling its human values " God " .
Love the sinner with all your heart, but do n't cheapen the gospel for anyone!
Seeing that sodium was the only possible reducing agent, he set himself to cheapen its cost, and deliberately rejecting sodium carbonate for the more expensive sodium hydroxide (caustic soda), and replacing carbon by a mixture of iron and carbon - the so-called carbide of iron - he invented the highly scientific method of winning the alkali metal which has remained in existence almost to the present day.
For one kind of meat we could substitute another; wool could be replaced by cotton, silk or fur; were our common silicate glass gone, we could probably perfect and cheapen some other of the transparent solids; but even if the earth could be made to yield any substitute for the forty or fifty million tons of iron which we use each year for rails, wire, machinery, and structural purposes of many kinds, we could not replace either the steel of our cutting tools or the iron of our magnets, the basis of all commercial electricity.