Get to know Abase better with 5 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like humiliate or offend.
Abase meaning
- To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
- To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
- To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.
Using Abase
- The main meaning on this page is: To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate. | To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop. | To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.
- Useful related words include: humiliate, offend, bruise, injure.
- In the example corpus, abase often appears in combinations such as: amira abase.
Context around Abase
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Abase
- In this selection, "abase" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, amira, abubakar and themselves stand out and add context to how "abase" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and abubakar abase 18 before and and amira abase. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "abase" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with abase
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Ms Sultana is thought to be dead, while the fate of Ms Abase is unknown. (15 words)
Ali last saw his daughter in Britain two months before she fled to Syria with fellow Bethnal Green schoolgirls Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase. (24 words)
It’s a show of dominance directed more at Republicans than Democrats, meant to make them abase themselves by acquiescing to a nomination they know is indefensible. (27 words)
The 19-year-old fled the UK with two other friends, Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase, from Bethnal Green in 2015, and said she has been living "a normal life" in the caliphate, interrupted by "bombing and stuff". (38 words)
The Department of States Service, (DSS) has arraigned two suspected herdsmen, Namajo Mohammadu, 32 and Abubakar Abase, 18 before an Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court over alleged murder and armed robbery. (30 words)
It’s a show of dominance directed more at Republicans than Democrats, meant to make them abase themselves by acquiescing to a nomination they know is indefensible. (27 words)
Example sentences (5)
It’s a show of dominance directed more at Republicans than Democrats, meant to make them abase themselves by acquiescing to a nomination they know is indefensible.
Ali last saw his daughter in Britain two months before she fled to Syria with fellow Bethnal Green schoolgirls Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase.
Ms Sultana is thought to be dead, while the fate of Ms Abase is unknown.
The 19-year-old fled the UK with two other friends, Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase, from Bethnal Green in 2015, and said she has been living "a normal life" in the caliphate, interrupted by "bombing and stuff".
The Department of States Service, (DSS) has arraigned two suspected herdsmen, Namajo Mohammadu, 32 and Abubakar Abase, 18 before an Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court over alleged murder and armed robbery.
Common combinations with abase
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: