debased vs gone bad

debased

adj
  • Brought low; degraded. 

  • Reversed. 

gone bad

adj
  • Of foods and commodities, having become spoiled, rotten, or otherwise unusable due to age or storage conditions. 

  • Of a person or entity, having ceased to be reputable and having instead become delinquent, criminal, or poorly behaved. 

  • Of a region or area, having become unsafe. 

  • Of a delinquent or criminal act, having unexpectedly become more violent than is typical for that act—having resulted in an attack on a victim leading to serious injury or death. 

How often have the words debased and gone bad occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )