abasing
present participle ofabase
abase
verb
formaluk/əˈbeɪs/us/əˈbeɪs/abase yourself
to make yourselfseemto be lessimportantor to notdeserverespect
Humiliating and degrading
- abase
- abasement
- be under a cloudidiom
- bring/takesomeonedown a peg (or two)idiom
- bruisesomeone'segoidiom
- debase
- disgraced
- dishonour
- dishonourable
- doghouse
- exhibition
- ignominious
- ignominiously
- ignominy
- in the doghouseidiom
- indignity
- shoddy
- stoop
- stoop tosomething
- undignified
Examplesofabasing
abasing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
We then find the politiciansabasingthemselves and saying how much they got it wrong and how right they are to say how much they got it wrong.
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In his poem he attacks womankind,abasingthem as vile and disgusting creatures.
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- co-ruler
- co-ruler
- coruscating
- country singer
- country-specific
- country-specific
- country squire
- countrywide
- countrywoman
- count sb in
- count-sb-in
- count sb out
- count-sb-out
- count someone in
- count something out
- count sth out
- count-sth-out
- count the cost
- count-the-cost
- count-towards
- count towards something
- count towards sth
- count-towards-sth
- county
- county administrator