verb/a.bɛ.se/
to lower; to reduce; to bring down; to come or go down; to descend; to humble oneself, demean oneself, stoop; abase, degrade, humiliate; to roll out (the dough)
Inherited from Middle French, from Old French abaissier, from a (“to, towards”) + baissier (“to lower”). See Modern French à, baisser.