cheapen
English
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to decrease the value of; to make cheap
- (transitive) to make vulgar
- (intransitive) to become cheaper
- (transitive) to bargain for, ask the price of.
Etymology
Suffix from English cheap (purchase, market, business).
Origin
English
cheap
Gloss
purchase, market, business
Concept
Semantic Field
Possession
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
購
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cheap English
- cheapass English
- cheapener English
- cheapeneth English
- cheapie English
- cheapish English
- cheapjack English
- cheaply English
- cheapness English
- cheapo English
- cheapoid English
- cheapshit English
- cheapskate English
- cheapstead English
- cheapster English
- supercheap English
- ultracheap English
- kjip Norwegian Bokmål
- チープ Japanese
- kjip Norwegian Nynorsk
- cheep Middle English
- chipa Ido
- iċep Maltese
- -chipa, chipa Shona
- chipa Shona