Crossword-Solution: ABASE 5 letters, 115 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Abase a. To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the
eye.
Abase a. To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office,
condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble;
to degrade.

We have 115 clues for the answer “ABASE”

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"If life has ___ that it stands upon . . ." (Woolf) 1 answer
Be an online troll 1 answer
Belittle (oneself) 1 answer
Belittle or bully 1 answer
Bring down a notch 1 answer
Bring down a peg 1 answer
Cause to eat humble pie 1 answer
Cause to feel shame 1 answer
Demote or humble 1 answer
Get all humble 1 answer
In lower rank 1 answer
Insult badly 1 answer
Insult badly, e.g. 1 answer
Knock down some 1 answer
Knock down to size 1 answer
Lower in office 1 answer
Lower in prestige 1 answer
Lower in public estimation 1 answer
Lower one's self. 1 answer
Make feel small 1 answer
Make less of 1 answer
Opposite of "ennoble" 1 answer
Opposite of exalt 1 answer
Opposite of glorify 1 answer
Put down nastily 1 answer
Shame, e.g. 1 answer
Strip of stripes 1 answer
Humiliate or degrade 1 answer
Take down verbally 1 answer
behave in a way that belittles or degrades someone 1 answer
humble humiliate 1 answer
humiliate, hurt the pride of 1 answer
to humiliate 1 answer
to humiliate cause to feel shame 1 answer
Lower in rank or dignity 1 answer
Bring shame to 2 answers
Knock down a notch 2 answers
LOWER in reputation 2 answers
Make humble 2 answers
Opposite of "build up" 2 answers
Wound the pride of 2 answers
Knock down a peg 3 answers
Lower in Esteem 3 answers
MAKE base 3 answers
Take down a notch 3 answers
Treat like Dirt 3 answers
Humble (oneself) 4 answers
Lower in status 5 answers
LOWER in value 6 answers
Reduce in rank 6 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EZACEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ABASE (5)

Ten Canelious canter in the environs, And very loud the cry out this sermon: "Let who would from our gods have garrison, Serve them and pray with great affliction." Pagans awhile their heads and faces on Their breasts abase, their polished helmets doff.
The Song of Roland Anonymous 1996
March’s grave face relaxed, in spite of her efforts to keep sober, when she heard him declare that he would atone for his sins by all sorts of penances, and abase himself like a worm before the injured damsel.
Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1996
And now I found, as I thought, that I loved Christ dearly: Oh! methought my soul cleaved unto Him, my affections cleaved unto Him; I felt love to Him as hot as fire; and now, as _Job_ said, _I thought I should die in my nest_; but I did quickly find, that my great love was but little; and that I, who had, as I thought, such burning love to Jesus Christ, could let Him go again for a very trifle,—God can tell how to abase us, and can hide pride from man.
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners John Bunyan 2013
Then with a terrible shout the great God cried, So to turn back from war Achilles awed By the voice divine, and save from death the Trojans: "Back from the Trojans, Peleus' son! Beseems not That longer thou deal death unto thy foes, Lest an Olympian God abase thy pride." But nothing quailed the hero at the voice Immortal, for that round him even now Hovered the unrelenting Fates.
The Fall of Troy Smyrnaeus Quintus 1996
For the others, what shall I say? Just because I hesitate to put off my mantle of dignity and abase this noble intellect by associating with a herd of revellers and--er--" "Libertines?" said Jonah.
The Brother of Daphne Dornford Yates 2008

Quotes with ABASE (3)

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes. And where men worship these things and abase themselves before them, there evil breeds; there places are made in the world where darkness gathers, places given over wholly to the Ones whom w…
Ursula K. Le Guin
... Because the sacred fire that lights all nature liveliest of all in its own image glows. All these prerogatives the human creature possesses, and if one of them should fail, he must diminish from his noble stature. Sin only can disenfranchise him, and veil his likeness to the Highest Good; whereby the light in him is lessened and grows pale. Ne'er can he win back dignities so high till the void made by guilt be all filled in with just amends paid for by illicit joy. Now, w…
Dante Alighieri Paradiso
They have nothing to give. They have no power of making. All their power is to darken and destroy. They cannot leave this place; they are this place; and it should be left to them. They should not be denied nor forgotten, but neither should they be worshiped. The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden f…
Ursula K. Le Guin The Tombs of Atuan
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Used 674 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).