ABASE as VERB

  1. Meaning
    • cause to feel shame
    • hurt the pride of

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    • He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss

    Hypernyms(s) abase is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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