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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

bring low en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To embarrass or humiliate.
  2. To kill.
    • Then Beowulf too rallied. With his whetted dagger he slit a gash in the serpent's middle. Thus did Beowulf bring him low! 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 46:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
brings low Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
bringing low Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
brought low Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
brought low Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

put someone in their place · lower one's sights · cut down to size