embase

From em- +‎ base. Compare Old French embaissier.

embase (third-person singular simple present embases, present participle embasing, simple past and past participle embased)

1. (obsolete) Physically to lower.

   Embased the valleys, and embossed the hills. — Sylvester.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To bring down or lower in position, status, etc.; to degrade, humiliate.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

     And either vowd with all their power and witt / To let not others honour be defaste / Of friend or foe, who ever it embaste [...].

   Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity. — South.

3. (obsolete) To lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc.); to debase (a coin) with alloy.

   Alloy in coin of gold […] may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. — Francis Bacon.

• Mabees, bamsee, beames

embase

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of embasar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of embasar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of embasar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of embasar

embase

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of embasarse.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of embasarse.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of embasarse.