Usually means: Reduce or lower in esteem.
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  1. abase: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. abase: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abase: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abase: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abase: Vocabulary.com
  6. abase: Wordnik
  7. abase: Wiktionary
  8. abase: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. abase: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. abase: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Abase, abase: Dictionary.com
  12. abase: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Abase: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. abase: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. abase: Rhymezone
  16. Abase: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. abase: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. abase: Free Dictionary
  19. abase: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. abase: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. abase: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. abase: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. abase: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) 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.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.

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