ABASE Synonyms: 160 Similar and Opposite Words

abase

verb

ə-ˈbās

as in to degrade

to lower in character, dignity, or quality was unwilling to abase himself by pleading guilty to a crime that he did not commit

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as in to humiliate

to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes I certainly don't abase myself when I do good, honest manual labor

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Recent Examples of abase Turturro was attracted to the novel’s house style: Its manic, sarcastic, abasing observations, largely written in the third person but never far from Sabbath’s perspective, seemed made for the theater. —

Marc Tracy, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023 Pence has long since perfected the ability to abase himself in public without seeming the least bit ashamed. —

Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2023 Unfortunately, an impulse to abase oneself isn’t resolved by a recognition that human life is a collaboration. —

Caleb Crain, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2021 One by one, internees abase themselves before 60 of their fellow prisoners, repenting of their errors in thinking and their nonprogressive religious practices. —

James E. Person Jr., National Review, 17 Sep. 2020

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Operating without high temperatures also allowed the researchers to use a wider range of sensing materials, including polymers that might degrade under heat.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 June 2026
Thermomechanical recycling, another energy-intensive endeavor, relies on high-quality, homogeneous feedstock that can only be processed a limited number of times before the plastic degrades.

— Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 17 June 2026