embase
verb/ɪmˈbeɪs/
Etymology
Definitions
To lower physically.
- [God had] Embast the valleys, and embost the hills.
To bring down or lower in position, status, etc.
To bring down or lower in position, status, etc.; to degrade, humiliate.
- And either vowd with all their power and witt To let not others honour be defaste Of friend or foe, who ever it embaste […]
- Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity.
To lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc.)
To lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc.); to debase (a coin) with alloy.
- Alloy in coin of gold […] may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.
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Derived
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA