Antonyms for cheapen
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : chee-puh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʃi pən |
Definition of cheapen
Origin :- 1570s, "ask the price of," from cheap (adj.) + -en (1). Meaning "lower the price of" is from 1833, but figuratively, "to lower in estimation" is from 1650s. Related: Cheapened; cheapening.
- verb diminish worth
- He loved with single heart and refused to cheapen himself or his love.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- To quote or to individualize would be to cheapen this vast offering.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- He was never known to bargain for a book or to endeavour to cheapen it.
- Extract from : « The Book-Hunter in London » by William Roberts
- At "cheapen the cost" his big ears twitched as if they had been tickled.
- Extract from : « The Plum Tree » by David Graham Phillips
- It wont do to cheapen your work by putting a small price on it.
- Extract from : « Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 » by Various
- It is the market of young lecturers, whom you may cheapen here at all rates and sizes.
- Extract from : « Microcosmography » by John Earle
- Her Uncle Tom and Winifred seemed to jeer at her, to cheapen her.
- Extract from : « The Rainbow » by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
- They cheapen, he complained, by their imports sassafras from its proper price of 20s.
- Extract from : « Sir Walter Ralegh » by William Stebbing
- Over-decoration tends to cheapen this valuable form of decoration.
- Extract from : « Industrial Arts Design » by William H. Varnum
- It is their purpose to increase importation in order to cheapen prices.
- Extract from : « Speeches of Benjamin Harrison » by Benjamin Harrison
Synonyms for cheapen
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