nöyryyttää — meaning in English
Finnish → English · translate English → Finnish instead
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.
- 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
- 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.
- verb To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
- verb To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.
abate — full definition
- verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
- verb (law) To cancel or bring a legal matter to an end.