| 单词 | abasement |
| 释义 | abasement (once / 5366 pages) n Abasement means humiliation or disgrace. Losing an important football game because of several stupid mistakes might result in abasement for the whole team. The noun abasement is good for describing the feeling of shame or disgrace that overcomes people who do something embarrassing or dishonorable. A political scandal or huge election loss can result in abasement for an entire party, and tripping and falling in the middle school cafeteria can cause a thirteen year-old's abasement. Abasement and its related verb, abase, come from an Old French root, abaissier, "diminish, or make lower in value or status." WORD FAMILYabasement: abasements, self-abasement+/abase: abased, abasement, abases, abasing USAGE EXAMPLESShe read in his face that it had been a place of abasement, of degradation and despair. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) Public atonement requires public abasement and for public abasement, you need television. Los Angeles Times(Aug 25, 2016) The abasement of family is the saddest tragedy of government overreach. Time(Jul 13, 2016) 1n depriving one of self-esteem Syn|Hypo|Hyper humiliation comedown decline to a lower status or level debasement, degradation changing to a lower state (a less respected state) 2n a low or downcast state "each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement"- H.L.Menchken Syn|Hypo|Hyper abjection, degradation decadence, decadency, degeneracy, degeneration the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities depth(usually plural) a low moral state humiliation state of disgrace or loss of self-respect |
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