abase
verb (used with object)
have abased
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present perfectof abase.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Each week, after the nobles have abased themselves before him, the Moro Naba heads for a splendidly caparisoned stallion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not to have abased myself before the dollar?
From Time Magazine Archive
Dearest Babs, Bickers and Son have abased themselves, and assure me that they have fetched the Dictionary away and are sending it here.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Leonard Huxley
When you have abased yourself before a friend, have confessed your own shortcomings, and braced yourself to bear reproaches, what can be more delightful than to hear that her own ignorance is greater than yours?
From More About Peggy by Unknown
As he saw the unmistakable light in her blue eyes, the light he knew she had kept burning for him alone, Felipe could have abased himself to the very hoofs of her burro.
From A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West by Frank Norris
