Definitions
1.verbTo 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.verbTo lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop."to abase the eye"
3.verbTo lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.