abase
Meaning of abase
verb
- 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.
- To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
to abase the eye
- To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.
Information about abase
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of abase is: abases.
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Hyphenation of abase
abase
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- abase is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
abase synonyms
Meaning humiliate:
humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble
Meaning :
downgrade, lower, reduce, degrade, demean, depress, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, sink
abase antonyms
Meaning :
dignify, elevate, exalt, extol, honor, promote, raise, uplift
Translation of abase
- Spanish: rebajar, degradar
- Portuguese: rebaixar
- German: degradieren
- French: dégrader, rabaisser
- Italian: degradare
Words that rhyme with abase
Base, base, Anabase, Orabase, database, diabase, metadiabase, panabase, subbase, debase, firebase, freebase, prebase, rebase, timebase, dibase, semibase, tribase, wheelbase, anathrombase, embase, imbase, rimbase, thrombase, nonbase, unbase, Kilobase, gnathobase, gynobase, isobase, kilobase, leucobase, locobase, monobase, nucleobase, proterobase, rheobase, sclerobase, Absorbase, airbase, counterbase, overbase, superbase, surbase, disbase, postbase, polybase
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