"abase" meaning in English

See abase in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /əˈbeɪs/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-abase.ogg , en-ca-abase.ogg , en-au-abase.ogg Forms: abases [present, singular, third-person], abasing [participle, present], abased [participle, past], abased [past]
Rhymes: -eɪs Etymology: From Late Middle English abaishen, abashen, abaisse, abassen, abesse, abessen (“to be upset; to embarrass; to surprise; to confound; to bend down, stoop; to abase, degrade, disgrace”), from Middle French abaisser, from Old French abaissier, abessier (“to prostrate oneself; to lower, reduce”) (also compare Old French esbahir (“to amaze”), Vulgar Latin abbassiāre (“to lower”)), from a- (prefix indicating movement towards something) (from Latin ad (“toward, to”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“at, to”)) + baissier (“to lower”) (from Medieval Latin bassus (“short of stature, low; base”), possibly from Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (básis, “foot; base, foundation”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to step”)). The spelling of the English word has been influenced by base, thus ostensibly analyzable as a- (“towards”) + base. There exist verb cognates in galloromance languages such as Catalan abaixar (“lower; abase”) and Occitan abaissar, and similar word construction in other romance languages as Spanish abajo (“down, downstairs; below”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*gʷem-}}, {{inh|en|enm|abaishen}} Middle English abaishen, {{der|en|frm|abaisser}} Middle French abaisser, {{der|en|fro|abaissier}} Old French abaissier, {{cog|fro|esbahir||to amaze}} Old French esbahir (“to amaze”), {{cog|VL.|abbassiāre||to lower}} Vulgar Latin abbassiāre (“to lower”), {{der|en|la|ad||toward, to}} Latin ad (“toward, to”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*h₂éd||at, to}} Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“at, to”), {{der|en|ML.|bassus||short of stature, low; base}} Medieval Latin bassus (“short of stature, low; base”), {{der|en|grc|βᾰ́σῐς||foot; base, foundation}} Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (básis, “foot; base, foundation”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*gʷem-||to step}} Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to step”), {{prefix|en|a|base|gloss1=towards}} a- (“towards”) + base, {{cog|ca|abaixar||lower; abase}} Catalan abaixar (“lower; abase”), {{cog|oc|abaissar}} Occitan abaissar, {{cog|es|abajo||down, downstairs; below}} Spanish abajo (“down, downstairs; below”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} abase (third-person singular simple present abases, present participle abasing, simple past and past participle abased)
  1. (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. Tags: transitive Synonyms (to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings): degrade, demean, depress, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, humble, humiliate, sink Translations (to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings): ذَلّ (ḏall) (Arabic), ذل (zall) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), унижа́вам (unižávam) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), понижа́вам (ponižávam) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), humiliar (Catalan), 羞辱 (xiūrǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), 貶低 (Chinese Mandarin), 贬低 (biǎndī) (Chinese Mandarin), ponížit [perfective] (Czech), pokořit [perfective] (Czech), ydmyge (Danish), vernederen (Dutch), kleineren (Dutch), alentaa (note: in rank) (Finnish), nöyryyttää (english: to hurt) (Finnish), baisser (French), abaisser (French), rabaisser (French), humilier (French), rebaixar (Galician), erniedrigen (German), 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽 (haunjan) (Gothic), εξευτελίζω (exeftelízo) (Greek), auðmýkja (Icelandic), niðurlægja (Icelandic), abasar (Ido), abassar (Interlingua), uirísligh (Irish), degradare (Italian), umiliare (Italian), abbassare (Italian), 卑しめる (iyashimeru) (Japanese), 貶める (otoshimeru) (Japanese), 格下げする (kakusage suru) (Japanese), 卑下する (hige suru) (Japanese), 낮추다 (natchuda) (Korean), пони́зува (ponízuva) [imperfective] (Macedonian), injillee (Manx), whakapāpaku (Maori), fornedre (Norwegian), ydmyke (Norwegian), rebaixar (Portuguese), humilhar (Portuguese), abater (Portuguese), abaixar (Portuguese), umili (Romanian), înjosi (Romanian), унижа́ть (unižátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), уни́зить (unízitʹ) [perfective] (Russian), fa'amaulalo (Samoan), rebajar (Spanish), degradar (Spanish), humillar (Spanish), darostwng (Welsh), iselhau (Welsh)
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  2. (transitive, archaic) To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop. Tags: archaic, transitive Synonyms (to lower physically): bring down, lower, reduce Translations (to lower physically): 降低 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 降低 (jiàngdī) (Chinese Mandarin), neerhalen (Dutch), strijken (Dutch), laskea (Finnish), alentaa (Finnish), abbassare (Italian), 下げる (sageru) (Japanese), whakapāpaku (Maori)
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  3. (transitive, obsolete) To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase. Tags: obsolete, transitive Synonyms (to lower in value): downgrade
    Sense id: en-abase-en-verb-hbAaYaAu Categories (other): English terms prefixed with a- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with a-: 32 40 27 Disambiguation of 'to lower in value': 21 11 68
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: abasedly, abasement, abaser Related terms: abash, base

Inflected forms

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      "word": "aggrandise"
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      "word": "dignify"
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      "word": "elevate"
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      "word": "exalt"
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      "word": "extol"
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          "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 14:11:",
          "text": "For whoſoeuer exalteth himſelfe ſhalbe abaſed: and hee that humbleth himſelfe, ſhalbe exalted.",
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          "ref": "1657, John Ball, “By Faith a True Believer may be Certain and Infallibly Assured of the Remission of His Sins and Eternal Salvation”, in A Treatise of Faith: Divided into Two Parts: The First Shewing the Nature, the Second, the Life of Faith. […], 3rd corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed for Edward Brewster, […], →OCLC, page 106:",
          "text": "Our adverſaries object againe, that by praying that Chriſts merits may be made ours in particular, we greatly abaſe them. As though the Prophet David did abaſe God in making him his in particular, ſaying, the Lord is my rock, my fortreſſe, my God, and my ſtrength, my ſhield, the horne of my ſalvation, and my refuge: […]",
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          "ref": "1868 December, T. W., “Lao-Tzu. 老子: A Study in Chinese Philosophy.”, in The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume I, number 8, Foochow: Printed by Rozario, Marçal & Co., →OCLC, chapter VI (Politics), page 158, column 2:",
          "text": "When a large kingdom abases itself to a small principality, it acquires that principality, and when a small state abases itself to a large one, it obtains service (or protection) under the large one. It is for this purpose that the small state submits, and the large kingdom annexes the small states for the purpose of uniting and maintaining the people.",
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        "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."
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      "id": "en-abase-en-verb-i6G-EbzS",
      "links": [
        [
          "lower",
          "lower#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "condition",
          "condition#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ],
        [
          "office",
          "office"
        ],
        [
          "rank",
          "rank#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "cause",
          "cause#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "pain",
          "pain#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "hurt",
          "hurt#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "feelings",
          "feelings"
        ],
        [
          "degrade",
          "degrade"
        ],
        [
          "depress",
          "depress"
        ],
        [
          "humble",
          "humble#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "humiliate",
          "humiliate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "degrade"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "demean"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "depress"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "discredit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "disgrace"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "dishonor"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "humble"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "humiliate"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "sink"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ḏall",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "ذَلّ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "arz",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "zall",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "tags": [
            "Egyptian-Arabic"
          ],
          "word": "ذل"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "unižávam",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "унижа́вам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "ponižávam",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "понижа́вам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "humiliar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "xiūrǔ",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "羞辱"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "貶低"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "biǎndī",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "贬低"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "ponížit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "pokořit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "ydmyge"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "vernederen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "kleineren"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "note": "in rank",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "alentaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "english": "to hurt",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "nöyryyttää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "baisser"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "abaisser"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "rabaisser"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "humilier"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "rebaixar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "erniedrigen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "got",
          "lang": "Gothic",
          "roman": "haunjan",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "exeftelízo",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "εξευτελίζω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "auðmýkja"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "niðurlægja"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "abasar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "ia",
          "lang": "Interlingua",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "abassar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "uirísligh"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "degradare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "umiliare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "abbassare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "iyashimeru",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "卑しめる"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "otoshimeru",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "貶める"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kakusage suru",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "格下げする"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hige suru",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "卑下する"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "natchuda",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "낮추다"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "ponízuva",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "пони́зува"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "injillee"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "whakapāpaku"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "fornedre"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "ydmyke"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "rebaixar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "humilhar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "abater"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "abaixar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "umili"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "înjosi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "unižátʹ",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "унижа́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "unízitʹ",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "уни́зить"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "sm",
          "lang": "Samoan",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "fa'amaulalo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "rebajar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "degradar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "humillar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "darostwng"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 6 4",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
          "word": "iselhau"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with collocations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with collocations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 40 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with a-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to abase the eye",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 32, page 214:",
          "text": "Her gracious words their rancour did appall, / And ſuncke ſo deepe into their boyling breſts, / That downe they lett their cruel weapons fall, / And lowly did abaſe their lofty creſts, / To her faire preſence, and diſcrete beheſts.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], Thomas Shelton, transl., “Of that which Befell to Our Knight, after He had Departed from the Inne”, in The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC, part 1, page 30:",
          "text": "[A]ll of you together ſhall pay for the great blaſphemy thou haſt ſpoken againſt ſo immenſe a beautie, as is that of my Miſtreſſe. And ſaying ſo, he abaſed his Launce againſt him that had anſwered with ſuch furie and anger, as if good fortune had not ſo ordayned it, that Rozinante ſhould ſtumble, and fal in the midst of the Carrier, it had gone very ill with the bold Merchant.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop."
      ],
      "id": "en-abase-en-verb-S1B~G2bJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "physically",
          "physically"
        ],
        [
          "depress",
          "depress"
        ],
        [
          "cast",
          "cast#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "throw",
          "throw#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "stoop",
          "stoop#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, archaic) To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "12 80 7",
          "sense": "to lower physically",
          "word": "bring down"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 80 7",
          "sense": "to lower physically",
          "word": "lower"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 80 7",
          "sense": "to lower physically",
          "word": "reduce"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "12 80 7",
          "code": "nan-hbl",
          "lang": "Chinese",
          "roman": "zh-min-nan",
          "sense": "to lower physically",
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "降低"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 80 7",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "jiàngdī",
          "sense": "to lower physically",
          "word": "降低"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 80 7",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to lower physically",
          "word": "neerhalen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 80 7",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to lower physically",
          "word": "strijken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 80 7",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to lower physically",
          "word": "laskea"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 80 7",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to lower physically",
          "word": "alentaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 80 7",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to lower physically",
          "word": "abbassare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 80 7",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "sageru",
          "sense": "to lower physically",
          "word": "下げる"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 80 7",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to lower physically",
          "word": "whakapāpaku"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "32 40 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with a-",
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        }
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1629 February 12, John Donne, “Sermon CXXXVI. A Lent Sermon Preached to the King, at Whitehall, February 12, 1629”, in Henry Alford, editor, The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of St. Paul’s, 1621–1631. […] In Six Volumes, volume V, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 450:",
          "text": "Though in the nature thereof, that with which a purer metal is mixed, be not base; yet, it abases the purer metal. […] [T]hough silver be a precious metal, yet it abases gold. Grace, and peace, and faith, are precious parts of our treasure here; yet, if we mingle them, that is, compare them with the joys, and glory of heaven; […] we abase, and over-alloy these joys, and that glory.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1840, Rogers Ruding, “Elizabeth”, in Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain and Its Dependencies; from the Earliest Period of Authentic History to the Reign of Victoria, 3rd corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed for John Hearne, […], by Manning and Mason, […], →OCLC, page 341:",
          "text": "[H]er majesty [Elizabeth I of England] let them all to understand, that she never intended (God's grace assisting her) to leese the fruit of so famous an act, by abasing the coin of the realm, which she found to be for the more part copper, and had now recovered it to be as fine, or rather finer, sterling silver, than ever it was in the realm by the space of two hundred years or more; a matter worth marking and memory.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase."
      ],
      "id": "en-abase-en-verb-hbAaYaAu",
      "links": [
        [
          "value",
          "value#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "alter",
          "alter"
        ],
        [
          "content",
          "content#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "alloys",
          "alloy#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "coins",
          "coin#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "debase",
          "debase"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, obsolete) To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "21 11 68",
          "sense": "to lower in value",
          "word": "downgrade"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈbeɪs/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
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    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪs"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "abaisse"
    }
  ],
  "word": "abase"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings”",
      "word": "aggrandise"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings”",
      "word": "dignify"
    },
    {
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        {
          "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 14:11:",
          "text": "For whoſoeuer exalteth himſelfe ſhalbe abaſed: and hee that humbleth himſelfe, ſhalbe exalted.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1657, John Ball, “By Faith a True Believer may be Certain and Infallibly Assured of the Remission of His Sins and Eternal Salvation”, in A Treatise of Faith: Divided into Two Parts: The First Shewing the Nature, the Second, the Life of Faith. […], 3rd corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed for Edward Brewster, […], →OCLC, page 106:",
          "text": "Our adverſaries object againe, that by praying that Chriſts merits may be made ours in particular, we greatly abaſe them. As though the Prophet David did abaſe God in making him his in particular, ſaying, the Lord is my rock, my fortreſſe, my God, and my ſtrength, my ſhield, the horne of my ſalvation, and my refuge: […]",
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          "ref": "1868 December, T. W., “Lao-Tzu. 老子: A Study in Chinese Philosophy.”, in The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume I, number 8, Foochow: Printed by Rozario, Marçal & Co., →OCLC, chapter VI (Politics), page 158, column 2:",
          "text": "When a large kingdom abases itself to a small principality, it acquires that principality, and when a small state abases itself to a large one, it obtains service (or protection) under the large one. It is for this purpose that the small state submits, and the large kingdom annexes the small states for the purpose of uniting and maintaining the people.",
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          "text": "to abase the eye",
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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 32, page 214:",
          "text": "Her gracious words their rancour did appall, / And ſuncke ſo deepe into their boyling breſts, / That downe they lett their cruel weapons fall, / And lowly did abaſe their lofty creſts, / To her faire preſence, and diſcrete beheſts.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], Thomas Shelton, transl., “Of that which Befell to Our Knight, after He had Departed from the Inne”, in The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC, part 1, page 30:",
          "text": "[A]ll of you together ſhall pay for the great blaſphemy thou haſt ſpoken againſt ſo immenſe a beautie, as is that of my Miſtreſſe. And ſaying ſo, he abaſed his Launce againſt him that had anſwered with ſuch furie and anger, as if good fortune had not ſo ordayned it, that Rozinante ſhould ſtumble, and fal in the midst of the Carrier, it had gone very ill with the bold Merchant.",
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        "To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop."
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          "ref": "1629 February 12, John Donne, “Sermon CXXXVI. A Lent Sermon Preached to the King, at Whitehall, February 12, 1629”, in Henry Alford, editor, The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of St. Paul’s, 1621–1631. […] In Six Volumes, volume V, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 450:",
          "text": "Though in the nature thereof, that with which a purer metal is mixed, be not base; yet, it abases the purer metal. […] [T]hough silver be a precious metal, yet it abases gold. Grace, and peace, and faith, are precious parts of our treasure here; yet, if we mingle them, that is, compare them with the joys, and glory of heaven; […] we abase, and over-alloy these joys, and that glory.",
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          "ref": "1840, Rogers Ruding, “Elizabeth”, in Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain and Its Dependencies; from the Earliest Period of Authentic History to the Reign of Victoria, 3rd corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed for John Hearne, […], by Manning and Mason, […], →OCLC, page 341:",
          "text": "[H]er majesty [Elizabeth I of England] let them all to understand, that she never intended (God's grace assisting her) to leese the fruit of so famous an act, by abasing the coin of the realm, which she found to be for the more part copper, and had now recovered it to be as fine, or rather finer, sterling silver, than ever it was in the realm by the space of two hundred years or more; a matter worth marking and memory.",
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    {
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "degrade"
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    {
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "demean"
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    {
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "depress"
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    {
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "discredit"
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    {
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "disgrace"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "dishonor"
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    {
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "humble"
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    {
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "humiliate"
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    {
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "sink"
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    {
      "sense": "to lower physically",
      "word": "bring down"
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    {
      "sense": "to lower physically",
      "word": "lower"
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    {
      "sense": "to lower physically",
      "word": "reduce"
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    {
      "sense": "to lower in value",
      "word": "downgrade"
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḏall",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "ذَلّ"
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      "code": "arz",
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      "roman": "zall",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "unižávam",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "унижа́вам"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "ponižávam",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "понижа́вам"
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "humiliar"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiūrǔ",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "羞辱"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "貶低"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "biǎndī",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "贬低"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ponížit"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "pokořit"
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    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "ydmyge"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "vernederen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "kleineren"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "note": "in rank",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "alentaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "to hurt",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "nöyryyttää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "baisser"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "abaisser"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "rabaisser"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "humilier"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "rebaixar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "erniedrigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "haunjan",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "exeftelízo",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "εξευτελίζω"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "auðmýkja"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "niðurlægja"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "abasar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "abassar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "uirísligh"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "degradare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "umiliare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "abbassare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "iyashimeru",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "卑しめる"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "otoshimeru",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "貶める"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kakusage suru",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "格下げする"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hige suru",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "卑下する"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "natchuda",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "낮추다"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ponízuva",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "пони́зува"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "injillee"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "whakapāpaku"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "fornedre"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "ydmyke"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "rebaixar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "humilhar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "abater"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "abaixar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "umili"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "înjosi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "unižátʹ",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "унижа́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "unízitʹ",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "уни́зить"
    },
    {
      "code": "sm",
      "lang": "Samoan",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "fa'amaulalo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "rebajar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "degradar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "humillar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "darostwng"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings",
      "word": "iselhau"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "zh-min-nan",
      "sense": "to lower physically",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "降低"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiàngdī",
      "sense": "to lower physically",
      "word": "降低"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to lower physically",
      "word": "neerhalen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to lower physically",
      "word": "strijken"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to lower physically",
      "word": "laskea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to lower physically",
      "word": "alentaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to lower physically",
      "word": "abbassare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sageru",
      "sense": "to lower physically",
      "word": "下げる"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to lower physically",
      "word": "whakapāpaku"
    }
  ],
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}

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A Lent Sermon Preached to the King, at Whitehall, February 12, 1629”, in Henry Alford, editor, The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of St. Paul’s, 1621–1631. […] In Six Volumes, volume V, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 450:\", \"text\": \"Though in the nature thereof, that with which a purer metal is mixed, be not base; yet, it abases the purer metal. […] [T]hough silver be a precious metal, yet it abases gold. 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feelings\", \"word\": \"whakapāpaku\"}, {\"code\": \"no\", \"lang\": \"Norwegian\", \"sense\": \"to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings\", \"word\": \"fornedre\"}, {\"code\": \"no\", \"lang\": \"Norwegian\", \"sense\": \"to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings\", \"word\": \"ydmyke\"}, {\"code\": \"pt\", \"lang\": \"Portuguese\", \"sense\": \"to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings\", \"word\": \"rebaixar\"}, {\"code\": \"pt\", \"lang\": \"Portuguese\", \"sense\": \"to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings\", \"word\": \"humilhar\"}, {\"code\": \"pt\", \"lang\": \"Portuguese\", \"sense\": \"to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings\", \"word\": \"abater\"}, {\"code\": \"pt\", \"lang\": \"Portuguese\", \"sense\": \"to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings\", \"word\": \"abaixar\"}, {\"code\": \"ro\", \"lang\": \"Romanian\", \"sense\": \"to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings\", \"word\": \"umili\"}, {\"code\": \"ro\", \"lang\": \"Romanian\", 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\"Welsh\", \"sense\": \"to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings\", \"word\": \"darostwng\"}, {\"code\": \"cy\", \"lang\": \"Welsh\", \"sense\": \"to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings\", \"word\": \"iselhau\"}, {\"code\": \"nan-hbl\", \"lang\": \"Chinese\", \"roman\": \"zh-min-nan\", \"sense\": \"to lower physically\", \"tags\": [\"Hokkien\"], \"word\": \"降低\"}, {\"code\": \"cmn\", \"lang\": \"Chinese Mandarin\", \"roman\": \"jiàngdī\", \"sense\": \"to lower physically\", \"word\": \"降低\"}, {\"code\": \"nl\", \"lang\": \"Dutch\", \"sense\": \"to lower physically\", \"word\": \"neerhalen\"}, {\"code\": \"nl\", \"lang\": \"Dutch\", \"sense\": \"to lower physically\", \"word\": \"strijken\"}, {\"code\": \"fi\", \"lang\": \"Finnish\", \"sense\": \"to lower physically\", \"word\": \"laskea\"}, {\"code\": \"fi\", \"lang\": \"Finnish\", \"sense\": \"to lower physically\", \"word\": \"alentaa\"}, {\"code\": \"it\", \"lang\": \"Italian\", \"sense\": \"to lower physically\", 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