унижа́вам — meaning in English

English meaning

• abase verb To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
• debase verb To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
• demean verb To lower someone's dignity or make them seem less worthy of respect.
• humble adjective Not proud or arrogant; modest about one's own importance or abilities.
• humiliate verb To make someone feel ashamed or foolish, often publicly.
• lower verb To move something down, or reduce its height, amount, or intensity.
• mortify verb To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.

Senses

унижа́вам is used for these senses in English:

• abase (transitive) To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate. [from c. 1350–1470]
• debase (transitive) To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
• humble (transitive, often, reflexive) To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.
• humiliate (transitive) To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of.
• lower (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
• mortify (transitive, usually, used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate. [from 17th c.]

abase — full definition

1. verb To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
2. verb To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
3. verb To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.

debase — full definition

1. verb To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
2. verb To lower in position or rank.
3. verb To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.

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