{"id":57,"date":"2014-04-06T15:11:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T15:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2014-04-06T15:11:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T15:11:24","slug":"abase-a-word-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/abase-a-word-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Abase | A word a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Abase (verb)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Present: abase \/ abases<\/li>\n<li>Past simple: abased<\/li>\n<li>Past participle: abased<\/li>\n<li>Gerund or \u2013ing form: abasing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">To abase yourself is to behave in a way that degrades or humiliates you.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He doesn\u2019t mind <strong>abasing<\/strong> himself before his superior officers.<\/li>\n<li>The exasperated mother asked her son to change his surname, then go and<strong> abase<\/strong> himself.<\/li>\n<li>She was a self-respecting woman. Still she often showed an inclination to <strong>abase herself.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He was not a good boss. He always made his employees <strong>abase themselves<\/strong> before him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Synonyms: humiliate, belittle, demean, lower, humble, degrade, disparage, debase, cheapen, reduce<\/p>\n<p>Idioms with similar meanings:<strong> lick someone\u2019s boots, suck up to someone<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He was never popular with his staff because he wanted them to lick his boots. (= He wanted them to act with extreme servility.)<\/li>\n<li>She wanted to get a raise so she sucked up to her boss.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abase (verb) Present: abase \/ abases Past simple: abased Past participle: abased Gerund or \u2013ing form: abasing To abase yourself is to behave in a way that degrades or humiliates you. He doesn\u2019t mind&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-abase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}