nöyryyttää — meaning in English

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.
• 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.
• reduce verb To make something smaller in size, amount, or intensity.

Senses

nöyryyttää 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]
• abate To bring down (someone) mentally or physically; to lower (someone) in status. [14th–17th c.]
• 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.
• reduce (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.

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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