Abases - 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

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

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

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…

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…

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

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 …

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…