verb

1. 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. To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.

   “to abase the eye”

3. To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.

Synonyms: downgrade, bring down, lower, reduce, degrade, demean, depress, discredit