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verb (formal)- abase yourself
to act in a way that shows that you accept somebody’s power over you 表现卑微；卑躬屈节；屈从 Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French abaissier, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + baissier ‘to lower’, based on late Latin bassus ‘short of stature’. The spelling has been influenced by the adjective base.