verb Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The bully would abase younger students by making fun of their clothes and stealing their lunch money. " attitude emotion action character condition moral society inhuman Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop. Examples : "to abase the eye" attitude character moral action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase. Examples : "The king decided to abase the currency by mixing cheaper metals into the silver coins. " value economy finance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading