Definition of abase

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Abase (a.) To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade..

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Metabases :: Metabases (pl. ) of Metabasi.
Self-abasement :: Self-abasement (n.) Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame..
Depress :: Depress (v. t.) To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride..
Himself :: Himself (pron.) One's true or real character; one's natural temper and disposition; the state of being in one's right or sane mind (after unconsciousness, passion, delirium, or abasement); as, the man has come to himself..
Abjectness :: Abjectness (n.) The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility.
Down :: Down (prep.) A state of depression; low state; abasement.
Diminution :: Diminution (n.) The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement..
Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate..
Base :: Base (a.) To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower..
Self-abased :: Self-abased (a.) Humbled by consciousness of inferiority, unworthiness, guilt, or shame..
Abase :: Abase (a.) To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye..
Diminish :: Diminish (v. t.) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.
Abasement :: Abasement (n.) The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation..
Tetrahedrite :: Tetrahedrite (n.) A sulphide of antimony and copper, with small quantities of other metals. It is a very common ore of copper, and some varieties yield a considerable presentage of silver. Called also gray copper ore, fahlore, and panabase..
Variolite :: Variolite (n.) A kind of diorite or diabase containing imbedded whitish spherules, which give the rock a spotted appearance..
Greenstone :: Greenstone (n.) A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc..
Self-abasement :: Self-abasement (n.) Degradation of one's self by one's own act.
Humble :: Humble (v. t.) To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively.
Diabase :: Diabase (n.) A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone..
Abject :: Abject (a.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase..
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