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In accounting, debit means to raise the balance of an asset account or to lower the balance of a liability or equity account.
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The common sense definition is "to lower," but accounting is not common sensical. In the T-format of entering amounts into different accounts, debit is the left-hand side. For asset accounts, "debit" means an increase in the balance.
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