#debasement__degradation  changing to a lower state (a less respected state)
  supertype:  change_of_state  the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics
  subtype:  dehumanization__dehumanisation  the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities; "science has been blamed for the dehumanization of modern life"
  subtype:  brutalization__brutalisation__animalization__animalisation  an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities
  subtype:  barbarization__barbarisation  an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized
  subtype:  bastardization__bastardisation  an act that debases or corrupts
  subtype:  subversion__corruption  destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"
  subtype:  demoralization__demoralisation  destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy
  subtype:  stultification__impairment__deadening  the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
  subtype:  vulgarization__popularization__popularisation__vulgarisation  the act of making something attractive to the general public
  subtype:  abasement__humiliation  depriving one of self-esteem
     subtype:  comedown  decline to a lower status or level

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