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verb- 1.
(transitive)To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
Đồng nghĩa: degrade, demean, depress, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, humble, humiliate, sink, abase, bring down to size, cut down to size, debase, defame, degrade, demean, demote, depress, discredit, disgrace, dishonour, disparage, downgrade, embase, give a bad name, humble, humiliate, knock down to size, put someone in their place, reduce, relegate, sink, slur, trim down to size, whittle down to size
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(archaic, transitive)To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
to abase the eye
Đồng nghĩa: bring down, lower, reduce, abase, abate, belittle, besmall, bring down, embase, cut, decrease, decrement, diminish, foreshorten, lessen, lilliputianize, lower, mince, minimize, reduce, shrink, smallify
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(obsolete, transitive)To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.
Đồng nghĩa: adulterate, debauch, degrade, devalue, downgrade, abase, adulter, adulterate, adulterize, alloy, balderdash, corrupt, bastardize, dash, dilute, embase, sophisticate, abase, avile, debase, debauch, degrade, depreciate, devalue, devaluate, dirty, elevate, vitiate
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ine-pro From Late Middle English abaishen, abashen, abaisse, abassen, abesse, abessen, from Middle French abaisser, from Old French abaissier, abessier (to prostrate oneself; to lower, reduce) (also compare esbahir to amaze, abbassiāre to lower), from a- (from Latin ad (toward, to), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (at, to)) + baissier (to lower) (from bassus (short of stature, low;