[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to lower in condition or worth; debase:hybrid works that neither preserve nor bastardize existing art forms.", "to declare or prove (someone) to be a bastard .", "Australian.to harass or humiliate as part of initiation into a college or regiment."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to become debased."]}]