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| VERB: | To deprive of esteem, self-worth, or effectiveness: abase, degrade, demean2, humiliate, mortify. Idioms: bring low, take down a peg. See RESPECT, WIN. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Having or expressing feelings of humility: lowly, meek, modest. See ATTITUDE, BIG, SELF-LOVE. 2. Of little distinction: lowly, mean2, simple. See PLAIN. 3. Lacking high station or birth: baseborn, common, déclassé, declassed, ignoble, lowly, mean2, plebeian, unwashed, vulgar. Archaic : base2. See OVER.
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