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
I hope to attain to this when I shall have abased myself utterly before Him.
From The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales by Jean Pierre Camus
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
I have abased her before Leicester's eyes; He saw it, he was witness of my triumph.
From Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
