Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CHEAP'EN
CHEAP'EN, v.t. [che'apn; Sax. ceapian. See Cheap, supra.]
- To attempt to buy; to ask the price of a commodity; to chaffer. To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, / Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy. – Swift.
- To lessen value. – Dryden.
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