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Definition of abasing : of Abase

Synonyms:

maligning, dishonoring, mocking, shaming, disgracing, embarrassing, degrading, defaming

distorting, perverting, adulterating, debasing, depraving, corrupting, desecrating, demoralizing, debauching, twisting, deforming, vitiating, warping, seducing

Usage examples:

• The legend grows and becomes a permanent political axiom, distorting and abasing the character of those who act on it and those who, suffering from it, and retaliating against its consequences, construct their counter- legend of the inherent wickedness of the dominant race. - "The Framework of Home Rule", Erskine Childers.
• After a short pause, and an abundance of felicitations on his excellent and self- abasing discourse, the newly admitted member again rose, and began to read an essay on some discoveries he had made in the science of Latent Sympathies. - "The Monikins", J. Fenimore Cooper.
• It would not be the only example of a hero seeking yet some chance of safety in the extremity of defeat, and abasing himself for the sake of preserving at any price a life on which fortune might still smile. - "A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times Volume I. of VI.", Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot.