abase
verb (used with object)
abasing
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present participleof abase.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Many people come to the politically incorrect boards of 4chan and 8chan from video-game communities, where players looking to laugh at an abasing joke or chat about violent games without offending anyone can find friends.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2019
How easily she could picture Oliver abasing himself before this girl by talking about that little out-of-the-way shop, how he’d known the owner for thirty years since his days as a foreign correspondent.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2018
Twenty-two years earlier, he had saved his career by addressing a supposed scandal with his nationally broadcast “Checkers speech,” which was mawkish, abasing and effective.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2016
Mercedes-Benz makes a lovely B-class electric car based on Tesla technology; but it has, as yet, no real stick in the EV ground beyond abasing itself to California clean-air authorities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2015
Whether such a procedure would exert a correspondingly elevating or abasing influence upon the intellectual development of the two classes is a problem for anthropologists.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall
