abase
/əˈbeɪs/
verb
- 1
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.
- 2
To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
“to abase the eye”
- 3
To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.
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