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verb

Cheapen v. t. (past & past part. cheapened; pres. part. cheapening)

To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for. (Obsoles.) "Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy."

To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate. "My proffered love has cheapened me."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cheapen" Quotes from Famous Books

... will create. An indemnity makes the purpose of the courage of the Grays in their assaults and of the Browns in their resistance that of the burglar and the looter. There is no money value to a human life when it is your own; and our soldiers gave their lives. Do not cheapen their service." ...

— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer

... cheerily, "When you've been in this division as long as I have, you'll know there's some good reason for pushing us this way; so take it easy, and don't growl. The General knows what he's about." I turned further out into the darkness, with a feeling that it would cheapen the brave man's words to let him learn who had heard him, but the evidence of the trust which is the foundation of soldierly devotion gave a deep satisfaction. When the column reached the river, which was about seventy-five yards wide, fires were lit ...

— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 • Jacob Dolson Cox

... serve as well as anything else, I suppose," he said. "If you are resolute and stubborn to insist upon leaving me, and tossing aside the career it has been my pleasure to plan for you, by all means go to Albany with the other Dutchmen, and barter and cheapen to your heart's content. You know it's no choice of mine, ...

— In the Valley • Harold Frederic

... moment ago. The prejudice of early youth, you know. I learned such things then, and they cheapen what I have since learned. They are the skeletons in ...

— Martin Eden • Jack London

... to cut. You may observe this disposition—this suspicion of 'literature,' this thinly veiled contempt—in many a scientific man to-day; though because his language has changed from Latin to English, it is English he now chooses to cheapen. Well, we cannot help it, perhaps. Perhaps he cannot help it. It is human nature. We must go on persuading him, not ...

— On the Art of Writing - Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 • Arthur Quiller-Couch

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