bring low

verb

To embarrass or humiliate.

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Meanings

verbbring low (third-person singular simple present brings low, present participle bringing low, simple past and past participle brought low)

present singular third person brings low · participle present bringing low · participle past brought low · past brought low

  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

Synonyms & antonyms

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