To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
to abase the eye
To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.
Humbled; lowered, especially in rank, position, or prestige.
Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.