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    [Verb]  | "abase" | \ ə-ˈbās \


    1: to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem

    2: to lower physically

    Origin: 14th century ;

     Alteration (conformed to {see: |base:3|base:3}) of Middle English abessen, abaisen, abaschen, borrowed from Anglo-French abesser, abaisser, from a-, prefix in transitive verbs (going back to Latin ad-) + -besser, going back to Vulgar Latin *bassiāre "to lower," derivative of Late Latin bassus "fat, short, low" , {mat|base:3|};

    [Idiom]  | "abase oneself" 


    1: to behave in a way that makes one seem lower or less deserving of respect

    [Verb]  | "abase" 


    1: to lower in character, dignity, or quality;


      * e.g., " ... was unwilling to abase himself by pleading guilty to a crime that he did not commit "




    2: to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes;


      * e.g., " ... I certainly don't abase myself when I do good, honest manual labor "




     [ "abase" ]

    1: v.t.r & refl. To humiliate or degrade someone.based on the late Latin word "bassus"

      * e.g.,  ... He began to abase the man behind his back. 

     [ "abasement" ]

    1: action of humbling or degrading

      * e.g.,  ... the abasement. 

     [ "abase" ]

    1: underestimate someone or something

      * e.g.,  ... to abase oneself 

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