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alentaa — meaning in English

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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.
  • 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 lower the rank or status of.
  • depreciate verb To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.
  • depress verb To make someone feel sad, low, or hopeless.
  • dock noun A structure at a harbour 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 Exile, banish, remove, or send 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, 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.

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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