What (who) is Abase - definition
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v. a.
1.
Depress, detrude, lower, reduce, drop, sink, stoop, cast down, let down, throw down, let fall.
2.
Degrade, humble, disgrace, dishonor, humiliate, debase, bring low, take down.
abase
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[?'be?s]
¦ verb (usu. abase oneself) behave in a way that belittles or degrades (someone).
Derivatives
abasement noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. abaissier, from a- (from L. ad 'to, at') + baissier 'to lower'.
Examples of use of Abase
1. His counterparts in Britain, by contrast, queue up to abase themselves before it.
2. The man who has dominated British politics for so long has had to abase himself in the face of a mutiny.
3. When the intellectuals whose livelihoods depend on free thought won‘t stand up for it, why shouldn‘t editors and governments follow their lead and abase themselves before fanatics?
4. I wonder whether there is anyone in the BBC who feels a tinge of shame that this once great institution should so abase itself and its standards.
5. She needs the Muslim vote to hold on to her seat and there are no limits to the depths to which opportunist politicians are prepared to abase themselves in cynical pursuit of popularity.