Abased - перевод на Русский и значение в Английском

verb

Dismiss (someone or something) as unimportant.

Примеры использования:

She belittled amy's riding skills whenever she could

verb

To make an action or a person seem unimportant

Примеры использования:

You gain nothing by belittling him and creating bad feelings.

verb

To make a person or an action seem as if he, she or it is not important

Примеры использования:

Though she had spent hours fixing the computer, he belittled her efforts., stop belittling yourself…

idiom

To show too much politeness or attention to someone

Примеры использования:

It's embarrassing to see people bowing and scraping to the new ceo.

verb

Reduce the price of.

Примеры использования:

The depreciation of the dollar would cheapen us exports

verb

To make someone or something seem less valuable and less deserving of respect

Примеры использования:

What the author hates about forgeries is that they cheapen true art.

verb

To reduce the price

Примеры использования:

This has had the effect of cheapening uk exports.

verb

Move forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground.

Примеры использования:

They crawled from under the table

noun

An act of moving on one's hands and knees or dragging one's body along the ground.

Примеры использования:

They began the crawl back to their own lines

verb

Move slowly

verb

Reduce (something) in quality or value; degrade.

Примеры использования:

The love episodes debase the dignity of the drama

verb

To reduce in quality or value

Примеры использования:

Television is often blamed for debasing american politics.

verb

To make something less good or less valuable

Примеры использования:

Some argue that money has debased football., we debase language by using it inappropriately until i…

verb

Treat or regard (someone) with contempt or disrespect.

Примеры использования:

She thought that many supposedly erotic pictures degraded women

verb

To reduce the quality of something

Примеры использования:

Degrading water/air quality, degraded sound quality, the state is funding projects to restore degra…

verb

To become worse in quality, or to make something worse

Примеры использования:

Unlike with a cassette player, the sound of the mp3 player doesn't degrade as the battery weakens.

verb

Cause a severe loss in the dignity of and respect for (someone or something).

Примеры использования:

I had demeaned the profession

verb

Conduct oneself in a particular way.

Примеры использования:

No man demeaned himself so honourably

verb

To cause to become less respected

Примеры использования:

I wouldn’t demean myself by asking my father for money., it was demeaning to be asked to leave beca…

verb

Move (someone) to a lower position or rank, usually as a punishment.

Примеры использования:

The head of the army was demoted to deputy defence secretary

verb

To lower someone in rank or position

Примеры использования:

The department is planning to demote some managers as a cost-saving measure., [ u ] he faces possib…

verb

To move someone to a less senior job than the one they had before

Примеры использования:

Demote sb from/to sth her manager demoted her from her job as a supervisor., demote sb for sth sour…

verb

Harm the good reputation of.

Примеры использования:

His remarks were taken out of context in an effort to discredit him

noun

Loss or lack of reputation or respect.

Примеры использования:

His actions were such that they brought discredit on his profession

verb

To give people reason to stop believing someone or to doubt the truth of something

Примеры использования:

The old soviet economic model has been thoroughly discredited., it’s the job of the defense to disc…

noun

Loss of reputation or respect as the result of a dishonourable action.

Примеры использования:

He left the army in disgrace

verb

Bring shame or discredit on.

Примеры использования:

You have disgraced the family name

noun

Embarrassment and the loss of other people’s respect, or behavior that causes this

Примеры использования:

He resigned in disgrace., he’s a disgrace to his family., the lies my opponent is telling about me …

verb

Regard or represent as being of little worth.

Примеры использования:

He never missed an opportunity to disparage his competitors

verb

To criticize someone or something in a way that shows a lack of respect

Примеры использования:

He disparages his business competitors, saying they are all a bunch of amateurs compared to him., m…

verb

To criticize someone or something in a way that shows you do not respect or value him, her, or it

Примеры использования:

Be disparaged as the actor's work for charity has recently been disparaged in the press as an attem…

noun

A young deer in its first year.

Примеры использования:

A six-month-old roe fawn

verb

(of a deer) produce young.

Примеры использования:

The forest was closed for hunting when the does were fawning

verb

(of a person) give a servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection, typically in order to gain favour.

Примеры использования:

They try to ingratiate themselves by fawning over the boss

verb

Lie or crawl abjectly on the ground with one's face downwards.

Примеры использования:

He grovelled at george's feet

verb

To lie facing the ground, esp. in fear, or to behave toward someone in a way that shows that you are small and unimportant and the other person is powerful

Примеры использования:

My dog grovels at my feet when she’s done something wrong., i’ll apologize, but i won’t grovel just…

verb

To behave with too much respect towards someone to show that you are very eager to please them

Примеры использования:

He sent a grovelling note of apology.

adjective

Having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's importance.

Примеры использования:

I felt very humble when meeting her

verb

Cause (someone) to feel less important or proud.

Примеры использования:

He was humbled by his many ordeals

adjective

Tending to consider yourself as having no special importance that makes you better than others; not proud

Примеры использования:

He’s a humble man and he’s not comfortable talking about his own achievements., she rose from humbl…

verb

Make (someone) feel ashamed and foolish by injuring their dignity and pride.

Примеры использования:

You'll humiliate me in front of the whole school!

verb

To make someone feel ashamed or lose respect for himself or herself

Примеры использования:

How could you humiliate me by questioning my judgment in front of everyone like that?, england were…

verb

Act in an excessively subservient manner.

Примеры использования:

She didn't have to kowtow to a boss

noun

An act of kowtowing as part of chinese custom.

Примеры использования:

Chang kowtows before the emperor, who tells him of his mission.

adjective

Less high in position.

Примеры использования:

The lower levels of the building

adverb

Denoting an older (and hence usually deeper) part of a stratigraphic division or archaeological deposit or the period in which it was formed or deposited.

Примеры использования:

Lower cretaceous

verb

Move (someone or something) in a downward direction.

Примеры использования:

He watched the coffin being lowered into the ground

verb

Cause (someone) to feel very embarrassed or ashamed.

Примеры использования:

She was mortified to see her wrinkles in the mirror

verb

To cause someone to feel extremely ashamed or embarrassed

Примеры использования:

He’s mortified by the fact that at 38 he still lives at home with his mother.

verb

Make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size.

Примеры использования:

The need for businesses to reduce costs

verb

Make smaller

verb

To make something less in size, amount, degree, importance, or price

Примеры использования:

A low-fat diet can reduce the risk of heart disease., grunn employs 17,900 people, but that number …

phrasal verb

To try to win the approval and good opinion of someone in authority

Примеры использования:

She’s always sucking up to the boss, telling him how wonderful he is.

noun

A person who behaves obsequiously to someone important.

Примеры использования:

He calls it a ‘parasite’, which she learned in school is usually defined as a hanger-on, a toady, a…

verb

Act in an obsequious way.

Примеры использования:

She imagined him toadying to his rich clients

noun

A person who praises and is artificially pleasant to people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them

Примеры использования:

Everywhere he goes he is surrounded by an entourage of toadies., shostakovich was often seen as a p…