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61abasement — (n.) early 15c., embarrassment, dread, fear, from ABASE (Cf. abase) + MENT (Cf. ment). Sense of action of lowering in price is mid 15c.; action of lowering in rank is 1560s; condition of being abased is from 1610s …
62corrupt — vb deprave, debauch, pervert, *debase Analogous words: degrade, debase, *abase: *ruin, wreck: pollute, defile, *contaminate Contrasted words: reform, amend, *correct …
63debase — 1 Debase, vitiate, deprave, corrupt, debauch, pervert mean to cause a person or thing to become impaired and lowered in quality or character and share certain distinctions in implications and connotations with the adjectives (usually participial… …
64exalt — exalt, magnify, aggrandize are comparable when meaning to increase in importance or in prestige. Exalt and magnify also come into comparison in their older sense of to extol or to glorify {O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name… …
65reduce — 1 *decrease, lessen, diminish, abate, dwindle Analogous words: *shorten, abridge, abbreviate, curtail, retrench: *contract, shrink, condense Contrasted words: *increase, augment, enlarge, multiply: *extend …
66derogate — v 1. discredit, disfavor, make disreputable, injure or impair the credit or reputation of; censure, reproach, inveigh against; reduce, lower, degrade, downgrade, debase, abase, vitiate; shame, disgrace, dishonor; humiliate, humble, mortify, Sl.… …
67debase — [v1] degrade, shame abase, bemean, cast down, cheapen, corrupt, cripple, debauch, debilitate, demean, demoralize, deprave, devaluate, devalue, disable, disgrace, dishonor, drag down*, dump on*, enfeeble, fluff off*, humble, humiliate, lower, put… …
68bumbaze — |bəm|bāz transitive verb ( ed/ ing/ s) Etymology: perhaps alteration of Scots baze to dismay, from Middle English baisen, baishen to dismay, be dismayed, from Middle French baissier to lower, abase, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin bassiare to lower… …
69sur|based — «SUR BAYST», adjective. Architecture. 1. having a surbase. 2. depressed; flattened. 3. designating an arch, vault, or dome whose rise is less than half the span. ╂[(def. 1) < surbas(e) + ed2; ( …
70A- — A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically,… …
