The difference between Abase and Downgrade

When used as verbs, abase means to lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings, whereas downgrade means to place lower in position.

Downgrade is also noun with the meaning: a reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.

check bellow for the other definitions of Abase and Downgrade

  1. Abase as a verb (transitive):

    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.

  2. Abase as a verb (transitive, archaic):

    To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.

    Examples:

    "to abase the eye"

  3. Abase as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.

  1. Downgrade as a noun:

    A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.

  1. Downgrade as a verb:

    To place lower in position.

    Examples:

    "The stock was downgraded from 'buy' to 'sell'."

  2. Downgrade as a verb:

    To 'dumb down', reduce in complexity, or remove unnecessary parts.

  3. Downgrade as a verb (transitive):

    To disparage.

  4. Downgrade as a verb (meteorology):

    to reduce the official estimate of a storm's intensity.

  5. Downgrade as a verb (computing):

    To revert software back to an older version.

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