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abase
abash, bump, cower, debase, demote, disgrade, dump, grovel, lower, set down, take down, truckle
Definition
v.
cause to feel shame
Last update: November 6, 2019
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Although I need money badly, I will not
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myself by working for pennies.
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Have I
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d my head.
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My stepmother is an evil woman who likes to
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little children because she had a miserable childhood herself.
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'I wouldn't
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myself by descending to hold no conversation with him,' replied the Dodger.
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Fortune may raise up or
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the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Civilized people, especially in our day, are neither elevated nor
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d by the good or bad fortune of a captain.
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The newly-married daughter found that her mother-in-law was fond of demeaning her, as a way to
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her in the son's eyes.
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Could she elect which man should live and which should die--this woman, scorned,
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d, mastered.
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They would crush that glorious body,
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the lips that had spoke so well of love.
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Ashamed,
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d, degraded in his own eyes, he turned away his head.
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Yet I would not
abase
myself, being now in my turn sore and therefore obstinate.
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