Definitions for cheapen

cheapen cheap·en

Spelling: [chee-puh n]
IPA: /ˈtʃi pən/

Cheapen is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in cheapen (aceehnp).

Definitions for cheapen

verb (used with object)

  1. to make cheap or cheaper.
  2. to lower in esteem; bring into contempt:
  3. to decrease the quality or beauty of; make inferior or vulgar:
  4. Archaic. to bargain for.

verb (used without object)

  1. to become cheap or cheaper.

Origin of cheapen

1555-65; cheap + -en1; replacing Middle English chepen (> obsolete English cheap (v.)) to price, bargain, Old English cēapian to

Examples for cheapen

To quote or to individualize would be to cheapen this vast offering.

It is the market of young lecturers, whom you may cheapen here at all rates and sizes.

In 2012, the “Israel-right-or-wrong” crowd continued to cheapen the very serious issue of anti-Semitism.

The first are books that bring added value to the popular, the second cheapen the whole proposition of publishing.

They cheapen, he complained, by their imports sassafras from its proper price of 20s.

He loved with single heart and refused to cheapen himself or his love.

Her Uncle Tom and Winifred seemed to jeer at her, to cheapen her.

He was never known to bargain for a book or to endeavour to cheapen it.

It wont do to cheapen your work by putting a small price on it.

At "cheapen the cost" his big ears twitched as if they had been tickled.

Word Value for cheapen
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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