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下げる — meaning in English

sageru

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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.
  • lower verb To move something down, or reduce its height, amount, or intensity.
  • reduce verb To make something smaller in size, amount, or intensity.
  • suspend verb To stop something temporarily, meaning to start it again later.

Senses

下げる is used for these senses in English:

  • abase (transitive, archaic) To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop. [from c. 1350–1470]
  • let down (transitive) To allow to descend.
  • lower (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
  • reduce (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
  • suspend To hang freely; underhang.

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.

lower — full definition

  1. verb To move something down, or reduce its height, amount, or intensity.
  2. verb To bring down in dignity or status; to demean.

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