abaixar — meaning in English

English meaning

• abase verb To lower someone's position, rank or status in a way that hurts their feelings.
• descend verb To move from a higher place to a lower one; to go down.
• duck noun A web-footed water bird, often kept domestically or hunted.
• lower verb To move something down, or reduce its height, amount, or intensity.

Senses

abaixar 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]
• descend (transitive, archaic) To move (someone or something) from a higher to a lower place or position; to bring or send (someone or something) down.
• duck (transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
• lower (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
• lower (transitive) To depress as to direction
• lower (transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
• turn down (idiomatic) To reduce the power, etc. of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.

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.

descend — full definition

1. verb To move from a higher place to a lower one; to go down.
2. verb To be traced back to, or come from, an earlier generation or source.
3. verb To become worse or fall into a lower, more negative state.

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