To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.
To lose vitality.
To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
To grant in mortmain.
To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
To be subdued.
To gangrene.