(v. t.) To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.
(a.) To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Panos Skourletis, spokesman for Syriza, the main opposition party, said: "This decision cheapens the prize and more importantly harms the institution of the Nobel peace award.
(2) The notion that it might start with another body on another beach seemed preposterous if not a little cheapening of what went before.
(3) Tech culture is even helping cheapen the very concept of sleep, Crary notes: "sleep mode" on your laptop just means it's waiting until it can be productive again.
(4) Why cheapen her by putting her on the face on the 20 dollar bill – the very symbol of the racialized capitalism she was fleeing?
(5) Such a belief would certainly cheapen the memory of the Shoah.
(6) What he's given them isn't something like the Home Run Chase between McGwire and Sosa, which was retroactively cheapened by later revelations or Barry Bonds' quest to beat Hank Aaron's home run record, which was an utterly joyless pursuit even at the time.
(7) There is no way to dehumanise him that doesn't also cheapen our humanity.
(8) You are not just attacking us, you are cheapening the sacrifice made by those we lost.” This story was amended on 3 August 2016 to clarify that Adam Kinzinger has not backed Donald Trump.
(9) • Turnover 7th highest in League £129m , down from £130m in 2014 • Income Gate and match-day income £27m; TV and broadcasting £77m; Commercial £25m • Wage bill 17th highest in League £65m , down from £78m in 2014 • Wages as proportion of turnover 50% • Profit before tax £36m , following £19m profit in 2014 • Net debt £81m • Interest payable £0.02m • Highest-paid director Unnamed, £150,000 (Lee Charnley was the managing director) State they are in: These figures are for the year supporters complained that Mike Ashley was running Newcastle as a cheapened flagbearer for his Sports Direct empire, aiming to finish mid-table, sniff at cup runs, and bank TV fortunes.
(10) I’ve cheapened my movie!’.” Or as Brand puts it: “The revolution cannot be boring.” A public feeling economic anxiety , at turns enraged and defeated, might agree.
(11) He had made no attempt to hide his fear that a colour magazine would cheapen the quality of his paper.
(12) The use of UMdex-40 as the main colloid in UW cheapened the solution, equalled the preservation success of UW and UW-plain but surpassed UW-plain in edema prevention, and exceeded UW concerning recovery of graft microcirculation.
(13) Even those favoured groups who are having banknotes waved at them may end up feeling cheapened by this descent into cash-and-carry politics.
(14) In an age of dating apps, transactional “hookups”, digital connection by proxy, do they think we’ve cheapened relationships?
(15) The facts speak for themselves; the adjectives and the sarcasm have the counterintuitive effect of cheapening them, of imposing on the world a disappointingly crude and simplistic argument.
(16) I’ve cheapened my movie!’” “People want to go home and have sex after your movie,” he said.
(17) The rise in unconditional offer making to applicants depresses admissions officers and cheapens our product.
(18) Apples and oranges here, saying otherwise cheapens your own achievement.
(19) But his reaction was instant: “This decision cheapens the prize and more importantly harms the institution of the Nobel Peace award.
(20) A weaker yuan cheapens Chinese exports, shoring up its manufacturing sector.
Decrease
Definition:
(n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
(v. t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
(v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
(v.) The wane of the moon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
(2) Such a decrease significantly biased survival (p = 0.001).
(3) The proportion of motile spermatozoa decreased with time at the same rate when samples were prepared in either HEPES or phosphate buffers.
(4) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(5) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(6) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(7) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(8) With UVB treatment clinical improvement was achieved, and a less pronounced decrease in epidermal LC was noticed.
(9) Measurement of the intraspinal monoamine level revealed a decrease in the intraspinal norepinephrine level in the treated animals.
(10) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(11) On removal of selective pressure, the His+ phenotype was lost more readily than the Ura+ Trp+ markers, with a corresponding decrease in plasmid copy number.
(12) This clinical improvement was also associated with a decrease of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (p less than 0.001), decrease of C-reactive protein (p less than 0.0001) and with improvement of anaemia (p less than 0.05).
(13) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(14) On the other hand, after exposure to BrdUrd, neuron specific enolase decreased in NB-1 and SK-N-DZ and increased in GOTO.
(15) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
(16) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(17) Western blot analysis of these mitochondria using an antibody against carnitine palmitoyltransferase II purified from beef heart demonstrates a 68-kDa protein, which under ischemic conditions apparently is decreased by 2 kDa.
(18) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
(19) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
(20) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).