2011年3月30日 · Abase suggests groveling or a sense of inferiority and is usually used reflexively (: got down on his knees and abased himself before the king), while demean is more likely to imply a loss of dignity or social standing (: refused to demean herself by marrying a …

2017年11月9日 · The phrase originates in the New Testament, Philippians 4:12-13 - "I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am structed both to be full and be hungry."

2018年4月28日 · James Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms, twenty-first edition (1914) lists debase and degrade in a synonym group that also includes abase, bring low, cast down, depress, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, humble, humiliate, lower, reduce, and sink. Fernald offers this distinction between the two words: Debase applies to quality or character.

2010年9月14日 · To cause to have a lower condition or status; abase. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin humilis , low, lowly, from humus , ground; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots .] CITATION : humbled.

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I feel obliged to point out that George Carlin had a wonderful rant about this use of the prefix pre-in his "Airline Announcements" sketch, citing pre-planning amongst pre-heating, pre-boarding, pre-recorded and pre-existing.

2015年9月28日 · Both are grammatical; that is, both adhere to the rules of how English syntax and morphology work.You wouldn’t be very likely to hear native English speakers say either, though—the most common phrase used for this is “speak up” (or, if it’s not someone who’s currently speaking, for example if it’s someone singing, “louder (please)” on its own does the …