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abase

/əˈbeɪs/ · verb

Meaning

  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.
  3. To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.

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  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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