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abased

/uh-beyst/US // əˈbeɪst //

卑微的,卑鄙的,卑贱的,卑劣的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Heraldry.

    • : lower on an escutcheon than is usual: a bend abased.

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Examples

  • They fall without being abased, and I regard them as being unfortunate without being liable to blame.

  • Not humbled before God, as having failed in trust towards Him; not degraded and abased in Mr. Thornton's sight.

  • But here the cedar means human grandeur and national greatness, full of arrogant pride and therefore doomed to be abased.

  • The most sensitive of four-footed creatures in the world, the Skye terrier is utterly abased by a rebuke from his master.

  • Nothing had been done, unless the situation of France were exalted in proportion as that of England had been abased.