ABASE

abase

Verb

  1. To lower physically or depress; to stoop; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. <ref name=SOED/>
  2. To lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, so as to hurt feelings or cause pain; to depress; to humiliate; to humble; to degrade. <ref name=SOED/>
  3. To lower in value, in particular as altering the content of alloys in coins.<ref name=SOED/><ref name=SOED/>


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