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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.

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How to use abase in a sentence

  • 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.

    The Making of a Saint | William Somerset Maugham
  • Viewed from afar, the town seemed to abase itself in the presence of the architectural preminence of that monarch of buildings.

    Under the Rose | Frederic Stewart Isham
  • 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.

    Kings in Exile | Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
  • Slavery, for example, is abase thing; but a servile mind in a free man is contemptible.

    The Aesthetical Essays | Friedrich Schiller
  • Violent language can no longer either exalt or abase any one.

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