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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Debase :: Debase (a.) To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words..
Humiliation :: Humiliation (n.) The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification.
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..
Diminution :: Diminution (n.) The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement..
Abjectness :: Abjectness (n.) The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility.
Abased :: Abased (a.) Lowered; humbled.
Self-abasement :: Self-abasement (n.) Degradation of one's self by one's own act.
Abased :: Abased (a.) Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield..
Ophite :: Ophite (n.) A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness. So called from the colored spots which give it a mottled appearance..
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..
Avile :: Avile (v. t.) To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.
Abject :: Abject (a.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase..
Avale :: Avale (v. t. & i.) To bring low; to abase.
Abasement :: Abasement (n.) The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation..
Abasedly :: Abasedly (adv.) Abjectly; downcastly.
Base :: Base (a.) To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower..
Abjection :: Abjection (n.) A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
Humble :: Humble (v. t.) To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate..
Panabase :: Panabase (n.) Same as Tetrahedrite.
Variolite :: Variolite (n.) A kind of diorite or diabase containing imbedded whitish spherules, which give the rock a spotted appearance..
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