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abase

verb as in deprive of self-esteem, confidence

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Example Sentences

Fortunately, however, there are New Year’s traditions that don’t involve wearing silly hats or abasing yourself in front of an ice luge.

I knew she would treat me with the same indifference, and only feel a wondering contempt that I should so abase myself.

Viewed from afar, the town seemed to abase itself in the presence of the architectural preminence of that monarch of buildings.

He had a foolish impulse to tear it down and to abase himself with a plea for pardon before the silent beast behind the bars.

Slavery, for example, is abase thing; but a servile mind in a free man is contemptible.

Violent language can no longer either exalt or abase any one.

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On this page you'll find 61 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to abase, such as: belittle, debase, degrade, demean, diminish, and disgrace.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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