Definitions for abased

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abased a·based

Spelling: [uh-beyst]

IPA: /əˈbeɪst/

Abased is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in abased (aabdes).

Definitions for abased

adjective

1. (of a charge) lower on an escutcheon than is usual:

verb (used with object)

1. to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation; humble; degrade.
2. Archaic. to lower; put or bring down:

Origin of abased

First recorded in 1645-55; abase + -ed²

Examples for abased

She had pled with him before, and knelt and wept and abased herself before him.

"Vain woman, your pride will be abased," rejoined Wolsey bitterly.

Ashamed, abased, degraded in his own eyes, he turned away his head.

I have prayed, I have abased myself before them, but none will hear.

He has the same equable spirit when abased and when abounding.

Seek not, even from Him, holiness in yourself; let self be abased, and be content that the Holiness is His.

The Reformation had been exalted and the Papacy was to be abased.

His moral force was abased into more than childish weakness.

The nation was abased, crushed beyond all hope of recuperation.

I tell you that this man, villain as he is, ever leaves me humbled and abased.