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debased

English

Verb

debased

  1. simple past tense and past participle of debase

Adjective

debased (comparative more debased, superlative most debased)

  1. Brought low; degraded.
  2. (heraldry) Reversed.

Anagrams

  • bad seed

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irreclaimable

English

Etymology

ir- +? reclaimable

Adjective

irreclaimable

  1. Incapable of being reclaimed; not reclaimable.
    irreclaimable land
  2. Unredeemable.
    an irreclaimable criminal
    • 1836, Grantley Berkeley, Berkeley Castle: An Historical Romance (volume 1, page 174)
      Even then, Wingfield endeavoured to retain the hawk by the substitution of another — young Kate, as he called her, a wild, raking bird as ever flew, whose kitish propensities had, some time before, led him to give her up as irreclaimable.

Derived terms

  • irreclaimably

References

  • irreclaimable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • irreclaimable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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