- reduced or lowered, as in status, office, dignity, or estimation; humbled; degraded: In the hearings, the abased director of the Children’s Fund finally admitted his errors and meekly promised reforms.
- (of a charge) lower on an escutcheon than is usual: a bend abased.
- people who have been humbled by misfortune, persecution, etc.:We entrust to God’s mercy the wretched, the desperate, and the abased.
