What is the difference between depress and abase?
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To press down.
To make depressed, sad or bored.
To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.
To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
(math) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
(archaic) To lower physically or depress; to stoop; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
To lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, so as to hurt feelings or cause pain; to depress; to humiliate; to humble; to degrade.
(obsolete) To lower in value, in particular as altering the content of alloys in coins.
As verbs the difference between depress and abase
is that depress is to press down on while abase is {{context|transitive|archaic|lang=en}} to lower physically or depress; to stoop; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye {{defdate|first attested from around (1350 to 1470)}}.depress
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Verb
(es)- Depress the upper lever to start the machine.
- Winter depresses me.
- Lower productivity will eventually depress wages.
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Verb
(abas)- "Saying so, he abased his lance''." - ''
- "Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased'' ." - ''Luke 14:11