0 present participle of cheapen
2 to make someone or something seem less valuable or important so that people respect them less:
She felt that the photos were exploitative and cheapened her.
But the effects of scientific advancement will not be branded by the cheapening of silks, calicos and hardwares.
There is no way to treat our genes as our property without thereby cheapening and degrading the molecules that play an essential role in making us human.
It does not matter for the purposes of increasing employment and cheapening production whether you relieve the one or the other.
It might result in the cheapening of the food of 44,000,000 people in this country.
There has been a good deal of simplification, yet, somehow, it has not resulted in a cheapening of the law.
Those standards will be achieved by greater productivity and a consequent cheapening of costs and prices.
The income of the department is to be used either for cheapening the registration or for improving the service.
Then, with regard to cheapening of supplies of electricity, the price of electricity depends primarily upon the cost of coal.
