Synonyms for abase
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Humiliate — to lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to…
humiliate, humble, sink, degrade, dishonor US, dishonour UK, demean, mortify, disgrace, discredit, depress, demote, abash, chagrin, deject, embarrass, disparage, relegate, debase dated, embase dated
2. Bring down — to lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop
bring down, lower, reduce, take down, bring low, cast down, diminish, belittle, abate, minimize, minimise UK, lessen
3. Corrupt — to lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase
corrupt, downgrade, alloy, dilute, devalue, sophisticate, debauch, depreciate, vitiate, bastardize UK US, bastardise UK, balderdash dated, adulterate formal dated, adulter dated rare
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Definitions
- v. 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.
- v. 2
To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
- v. 3
To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.
Forms
- Past participle
- abased
e.g. abased → humiliated, humbled, degraded, dishonored…
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Abase refers only to outward conditions. Misfortune or injustice may abase the good; nothing but their own ill-doing can debase or disgrace them.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- humble However humble it is, there is no place like home.
- degrade Don't degrade yourself by telling such a lie.
- humiliate Yuri didn't want Martha to humiliate him again.
- dishonor We dishonor the living and venerate the dead.
- profane Mixing the profane with the divine was Ginsberg's shtick.
By length
- 4 letters
- sink1
- 5 letters
- lower2, alloy2, abate2, abash2
- 6 letters
- reduce2, humble2, lessen2, dilute2, demean2, demote2, debase2, embase, deject2
- 7 letters
- corrupt2, degrade2, profane2, depress2, chagrin2, devalue3, mortify3, vitiate3, debauch, adulter
- 8 letters
- minimize3, disgrace2, diminish3, minimise, dishonor3, belittle3, relegate3
- 9 letters
- discredit3, embarrass3, downgrade2, humiliate4, dishonour, disparage3
- 10 letters
- depreciate4, balderdash3, adulterate4, bastardize, bastardise
- 12 letters
- sophisticate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lower2 = 2 syllables).