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a·base  (-bs)
tr.v. a·based, a·bas·ing, a·bas·es
To lower in rank, prestige, or esteem. See Synonyms at degrade.
[Middle English abassen, from Old French abaissier : Latin ad-, ad- + Vulgar Latin *bassire (from Medieval Latin bassus, low).]
a·basement n.


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Today she overwhelmed me with shrill reproaches, and abased me to the level of a hearth-brush.
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His moral force was abased into more than childish weakness.
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Some intrepid larches waved green pennons in the very midst of the turbulent water, here and there a veteran lay with his many-summered head abased in the rocky course of the stream, and here was a young foolhardy beech that had climbed within a dozen yards of the rampart.
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