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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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Etymology of 'Cheapen'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... each may claim the credit due to a peculiar eminence. It is only thus that you may measure conflicting talents: as it were unfair to judge a poet by a brief experiment in prose, so it would be monstrous to cheapen the accomplishments of a pickpocket, because he bungled at ...

— A Book of Scoundrels • Charles Whibley

... polished, so a good, smooth surface is provided, staining does not cheapen, but, on the other hand, serves ...

— Carpentry for Boys • J. S. Zerbe

... reverence as he went through the town. Yea, because he was such a person of honor Beelzebub had him from street to street, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a little time, that he might, if possible, allure that Blessed One to cheapen and buy some of his vanities; but he had no mind to the merchandise, and therefore left the town without laying out so much as one farthing upon these vanities. This fair, therefore, is an ancient thing of long standing, ...

— Bible Stories and Religious Classics • Philip P. Wells

... until Thursday—I'm a little pressed." Soon it became impossible for him to get more than a dollar at a time even from the women, except an occasional windfall through a weak or ignorant new acquaintance. He clung tenaciously to the fifty-cent basis—to go lower would cheapen him. But for the last two weeks his regular levies had been of twenty-five cents, with not a few descents to ...

— The Fortune Hunter • David Graham Phillips

... the whole broadside of sliding or folding doors, let the two rooms thus connected be of different styles but equal richness,—different, that they shall not seem one room cut in two,—peers, that one shall not shame and cheapen the other. ...

— Homes And How To Make Them • Eugene Gardner

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