transitive. To put or cast (someone or something) down; to lay (someone) low. Also: to bring (someone) down to a lower rank or position; to degrade…

figurative. transitive. To bring down, ruin, humiliate; to defeat, destroy.

transitive. To reduce or bring down (esp. a person), with respect to power, status, rank, etc.; to humble, bring low; to abase. Also reflexive. Obs…

To cause to be humble; to abase.

= to set down at phrasal verbs 2. Obsolete.

transitive. To check, reprove, or rebuke in a sharp or cutting manner; in later use, to treat or receive (a person, suggestion, etc.) in a way…

transitive. To bring low, abase, humiliate. Now rare (poetic).

gen. To put down, bring down, lower (from a position or estate). Obsolete except as figurative from 3a.

transitive. To weaken or diminish (a person or thing); to cause (something) to be lessened or reduced; to humble.

to bring low: to bring to a poor or undesirable condition, with respect to health, wealth, strength, or circumstances; to humble; (also) to bring…

To lower, bring down, depress, bring low, degrade, debase. literal and figurative. Obsolete.

transitive. To make meek; to humble, soften, tame; †to mitigate, calm, soothe (obsolete); to lessen the violence of; to bring low, abase.

transitive. To bring low; to humble, humiliate; to weaken, enfeeble, deplete; to lower the spirits of, to depress. Cf. pluck, v. 5b.

figurative. To degrade, abase, humble; to lower.

transitive. To degrade, put or bring down.

transitive. To bring down the presumption, pride, or self-esteem of (a person); to snub; to better in argument, to reduce to silence. Also (now…

To lower in dignity, position, condition, or degree; to bring low, abase.

transitive. To lower, bring down; to lessen. Frequently figurative.

figurative. To cast down from high estate or dignity, depose; to lower in condition or character, to abase, humble. Obsolete.

figurative. To lower in station, fortune, or influence; to put down, bring low, humble. Now rare.

figurative. transitive. Usually with down: to bring down, bring low; to humble, humiliate. Obsolete.

From sense 4 come the phrases: †to set up one's comb: to be proud or vainglorious, to hold one's head high. to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of…

figurative. To lower, humble, abase.

= to bring low at low, adj. n.2phrases 4.

transitive. = abase, v. 1. (reflexive in quot.)

To lessen in importance, estimation, or power; to put down, degrade, humiliate; to detract from, disparage, belittle. archaic. (See also diminished…

transitive. To humble (one's soul); to chastise. Obsolete.

transitive. To lower the opinion of (a person) as to his or her own status or ability; to humble, to humiliate. Also: to check (a person's pride…

transitive. To overthrow; to bring down in rank or station; to degrade, humiliate; to deject. Now archaic and rare.

transitive. To lower in position, rank, or dignity; to abase. Obsolete.

To lower in rank, dignity, office, condition, or character; to humble, humiliate; often with the sense of degrade, make base. Also reflexive.

transitive. To lessen; to belittle; = diminish, v. 3.

to put (also †thrust) a person's nose out of joint: to annoy, upset, or disconcert a person; to spoil a person's plans; so to have (also get) one's no…

transitive. To reduce (a person) to emptiness; to remove all dignity, power, etc., from; to abase, humble. Also reflexive (said of Christ: see quot…

The interval between two successive positions, such as could be marked by pegs; a step, a degree. Esp. in to take (a person) down a peg (or two) and…

The interval between two successive positions, such as could be marked by pegs; a step, a degree. Esp. in to take (a person) down a peg (or two) and…

transitive. = debase, v.

colloquial. to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)and variants: to lower (a person) in status or esteem; to humble or humiliate (a person)…

transitive. To cut the comb of, ‘take down’.

transitive. To cause to be no longer puffed, inflated, or swollen.

To bring to the ground, humble.

figurative (largely from 5). To bring down from lofty position or high estimation; to cast down, lower, debase. Obsolete.

transitive. To put an end to the authority or control of (a person, dynasty, political regime, etc.); to reduce to powerlessness; to ruin.

transitive. To make crestfallen.

figurative. To bring down, lower; to let down, humble, abase. Obsolete.

transitive. With adverb implied by the context. = to pull down at phrasal verbs (in various senses); esp. to bring low, weaken (= to pull down 1 at…

To humble, degrade, abase.

†to bring,†drive to scorn, to shame, disgrace; †to do (a person) scorn, to insult; †to get the scorn (Scottish), to be treated with contumely; †to hol…

transitive. To cause to feel humiliated; to cause (a person) mortification, to embarrass. Frequently in passive.

figurative. To abase, let down: = demit, v.1 2.

colloquial (chiefly Scottish). to put a person's pipe out: to foil, thwart, or frustrate a person. Now rare.

To lower in position, intensity, strength, or †value; to depress; to abase, humble. Also, to disappoint; to fail in supporting, aiding, or…

To lower (a person's pride, etc.); to take down, snub.

To lower or depress the dignity or self-respect of; to subject to humiliation; to mortify.

to draw (a person's) eyeteeth: to take the strength, pride, or self-confidence out of (someone); to humiliate; to dupe or cheat. Now rare.

transitive. colloquial. To discompose or humiliate (a person) with a sharp remark. Obsolete.

transitive. To crush, squash, demolish.

Phrases (with various nouns as object). to wipea person's eye (slang or colloquial): (a) Sporting, etc. (see quot. 1823); hence, to get the better…

In various figurative expressions: †two feathers out of a goose: a very small part of anything. †to gain more feathers: (of a rumour) to assume…

transitive. To cause (an organization, government, person, etc.) to appear incompetent, inadequate, or less worthy of respect; to humiliate.

to come (also get) off one's perch (colloquial): to adopt a less arrogant or condescending manner. to knock (also take,etc.) (a person) off his or…

intransitive. colloquial. To snub or put down (a person); to squash (an idea, a proposal, etc.). Cf. to sit on —— 8 at phrasal verbs 2.

figurative. To squash or crush; to put down or suppress thoroughly or completely. Now chiefly U.S.

In figurative phrases. in fine, good, high,etc., feather: in good condition of health, spirits, etc. in full feather: see quots. Of the weather: hi…

intransitive. colloquial. To snub or put down (a person); to squash (an idea, a proposal, etc.).

transitive. Originally U.S. slang. Originally: †to rebuke, snub, put down (a person) (obsolete). Now: to refuse to grant (a person) his or her…

transferred and figurative (chiefly colloquial). intransitive. To achieve a success; to make a hit. to score off (a person): to gain a triumph…

to do (a person) in the eye: to defraud, injure, humiliate (a person). Cf. one in the eye at one, adj. n.pron. phrases 4a. Now rare.

transitive. figurative. To cause to collapse in the manner of a punctured balloon, tyre, etc.; to deflate; to debunk.

to know (also keep) one's place: to behave in a manner appropriate to one's situation, social status, etc. not one's place: outside one's duties…

to cut down to size: to reduce to suitable dimensions; figurative to reduce to a true or proper level of importance.

To overwhelm (someone) with a crushing argument or remark; to put down, humiliate. Cf. to flatten out at sense 2b. colloquial.

In figurative phrases. to slap (a person or thing) down: to snub, suppress, or rebuke; to slap (a person's) wrist: to scold or reprimand; to slap (a…

slang (originally U.S.). transitive. Chiefly in African-American use: to humiliate; to beat up, bully, etc., esp. for the purpose of showing…