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ABASE
(verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
"He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
synonyms : chagrin , humble , humiliate , mortifyHis maths teacher abased him in front of the whole class when he failed in his course. -added by Administrator
The team was chagrined to learn that their production was not considered original. -added by Aswathy_inlas
Imagine that the dog is saying "Please oh please get me out of this dress!" as he is feeling humiliated (abased).
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(Tag: Global) abase = a + base; without a base; Imagine you shifted to a new house whose base is not very strong (without base) and hence it may fall down anytime and can abase you in front of your neighbours.
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Mnemonics for abase
(Tag: ) abase-abe(a slang used to degrade a person)+shhh(se)usually an attempt to degrade a person's opinion..ovral goes to humiliate a person....
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-20 (Tag: ) A baseball player tripped over A BASE marker thus humiliating himself.
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-7 (Tag: english) Abase > to bring someone down back to BASE level.
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-0 (Tag: ) a= no, negative, less & base = base, position, grade.. combinedly lessen the position/grade
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abash ..synonyms: humiliate added by preetisoni2411
abase means without base and without base things fall down -- so degrade (just imagine a house without a strong base) added by Vedashri14
synonym: affront added by kashfia
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