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Bbser Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Abate and abase

Could you help me understand the different meanings between these words? Thanks.
  

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Hi, First, have you looked them up in a dictionary? If you don't hane one, some are available online. eg / Best wshes, Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, First, have you looked them up in a dictionary?
  • If you don't hane one, some are available online.
  • eg / Best wshes, Clive
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Hi,

First, have you looked them up in a dictionary?

If you don't hane one, some are available online.

eg /

Best wshes, Clive
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Thanks, Clive. I was looking at a English-Chinese Dictionary, where both are explained as something like reduce. Now after referring to that English-English dictionary, I know abate means reduce amount of something and abase is something like humiliate somebody.
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