to cause something's qualities or defining characteristics to degenerate; to defile or degrade; to bastardize · to degrade; to degenerate; to become bastardized
çekim: geçmiş abâtardi · ortaç abâtardi · şimdiki abâtardit · ulaç abâtardissant
çekim: geçmiş krenkten · ortaç gekrenkt · şimdiki krenkt · ulaç krenkend
eş: affronteren, grieven, verongelijken
köken: From Middle Dutch crenken, crinken; related to krank (“sick, ill”). Equivalent to krank (“sick, ill”) + -en (“deadjectival”) and shows the effect of historical umlaut. Cognate with German kränken.
to weaken, debilitate, enfeeble, enervate (to make weaker) · to deteriorate (to make inferior in quality or value) · to dilute (to weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance)
çekim: geçmiş heikentänyt · şimdiki heikentäisi · ulaç heikentävä
köken: From heiketä (“weaken (intr.)”) + -tää (factitive verb).
to corrupt, deprave, adulterate, debase · to defile, pollute · to contaminate, taint, poison
çekim: geçmiş truaillithe · ortaç truaillithe · şimdiki truaillíonn sé
eş: éilligh, adhaltranaigh
köken: Back-formation from truaillithe, from Old Irish drúailnide, apparently a differently prefixed form related to éilnithe, past participle of as·lena (“to pollute, defile”).
to lower (in height or altitude) · to lower (in pitch or volume) · to lower (in value or quantity), reduce, decrease
çekim: geçmiş malaltigis · ortaç malaltiginta · ulaç malaltiganta
köken: Etymology tree Latin maleder. Old French mal- Middle French mal- French mal-bor. Esperanto mal- Esperanto alta Esperanto -igi Esperanto malaltigi From mal- + alta + -igi.