Usually means: Reduce quality, lower perceived value.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word cheapen:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. cheapen: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cheapen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cheapen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cheapen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cheapen: Vocabulary.com
  6. cheapen: Wordnik
  7. cheapen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cheapen: Wiktionary
  9. cheapen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cheapen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cheapen: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cheapen, cheapen: Dictionary.com
  13. cheapen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Cheapen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. cheapen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. cheapen: Rhymezone
  17. Cheapen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. cheapen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. cheapen: Free Dictionary
  20. cheapen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. cheapen: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cheapen: Legal dictionary

(Note: See cheapened as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To decrease the value or price of; to make cheaper.
verb:  (transitive) To make vulgar.
verb:  (intransitive) To become cheaper.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To bargain for, ask the price of.

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