The difference between Abase and Uplift

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 uplift means to raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.

Uplift is also noun with the meaning: the act or result of being uplifted.

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  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. Uplift as a verb:

    To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.

  2. Uplift as a verb (aviation, travel):

    to be accepted for carriage on a flight.

  1. Uplift as a noun:

    The act or result of being uplifted.

  2. Uplift as a noun (geology):

    A tectonic upheaval, especially one that takes place in the process of mountain building.

  3. Uplift as a noun (colloquial):

    A brassiere that raises the breasts.

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