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alentaa — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • abase verb To lower someone's position, rank or status in a way that hurts their feelings.
  • abate verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
  • break verb To separate something into pieces by force, often suddenly.
  • degrade verb To lower someone's dignity or status; to humiliate.
  • demean verb To lower someone's dignity or make them seem less worthy of respect.
  • demote verb To move someone down to a lower rank or position.
  • depreciate verb To lower the price or value of something.
  • depress verb To make someone feel sad, low, or hopeless.
  • dock noun A structure at a harbor where ships load, unload, or are repaired.
  • lower verb To move something down, or reduce its height, amount, or intensity.
  • reduce verb To make something smaller in size, amount, or intensity.
  • relegate verb To banish, exile, or otherwise force away.

Senses

alentaa 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]
  • abase (transitive, archaic) To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop. [from c. 1350–1470]
  • abate To bring down (someone) mentally or physically; to lower (someone) in status. [14th–17th c.]
  • abate To reduce (something) in amount or size. [from 14th c.]
  • back off (idiomatic) To lower the setting of.
  • break (transitive, military, most often in the, _, passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
  • degrade (transitive) To lower in value or social position.
  • degrade (intransitive, ergative) To reduce in quality or purity.

abase — full definition

  1. verb To lower someone's position, rank or status in a way that hurts their feelings.
  2. verb To physically push or bring something down, or to bend low.
  3. verb To reduce the value of something, especially by changing the metal content of coins.

abate — full definition

  1. verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
  2. verb (law) To cancel or bring a legal matter to an end.
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