Abase

Verb

 * 1) To cast down or to lower, as in rank, office, condition in life or estimation of worthiness, so as to hurt feelings or cause pain; to depress; to humiliate; to humble; to degrade.
 * 2)  To lower physically or depress; to stoop; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.

Adverbs for Abase
disgracefully; degradingly;  humiliatingly; shamefully; mortifyingly; ruinously; brutally; belittlingly; calumniously; traducingly; dishonorably; slanderously.

Synonyms for Abase
debase, degrade, disgrace, shame, lower, confound, mock.

Antonyms for Abase
promote, respect, honor, praise, cherish, elevate, dignify, glorify, extol, uplift, exalt.

Derived terms

 * abasedly
 * abasement
 * abaser

Thesaurus
abdicate, abandon, abjure, acknowledge defeat, be pensioned, be superannuated, cashier, cast, cease, cede, cry quits, demit, desist from, drop, forgo, forswear, give over, give up, hand over, have done with, jettison, lay down, leave, leave off, pension off, quit, reject, relinquish, renounce, renounce the throne, resign, retire, retire from office, scrap, shed, slough, stand aside, stand down, step aside, superannuate, surrender, throw away, throw out, throw up, vacate, waive, withdraw from, wrest, yield

Etymology
From abaissier, from a- + baissier:, from Late Latin bassus:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: унижавам, понижавам
 * Danish: ydmyge
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: auðmýkja, niðurlægja
 * Ido: abasar
 * Interlingua: abassar


 * Japanese: 貶める(おとしめる, otoshimeru)
 * Lojban: tolnolri'a
 * Macedonian: понизува (ponizuva)
 * Norwegian: fornedre, ydmyke
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Spanish:, degradar, humillar
 * Vietnamese: làm hạ phẩm giá, làm mất thể diện, làm nhục
 * Welsh: darostwng, iselhau
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