Debase

You will debase yourself with such behavior.

Why would you debase yourself like that?

Believe me, Tom, it's not possible for you to debase yourself.

We cannot, as a government, debase ourselves to the level of the criminals that we punish.

And just as history will decide whether the leaders of today's world employed the atom to destroy the world or rebuild it for mankind's benefit, so will history decide whether today's broadcasters employed their powerful voice to enrich the people or to debase them.