basen
English
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editbasen (third-person singular simple presentbasens,present participlebasening,simple past and past participlebasened)
- (ambitransitive) To make or becomebase(inferior orunworthy); tolower
- 1897, Sir William Robertson Nicoll,James Macdonell, Journalist, page186:
- If I had time I should write a long essay to show how much the political, and the ethical, and the theological teaching of the early Friends hasbasened that of modern England.
- 1956, Carlin T. Kindilien,American poetry in the eighteen nineties:
- The Nation, self-immersed, sinks in the mires;
Itbasens to a horde of the unjust.
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editbasen
- (transitive,intransitive,slang) toinhale orinsufflate (heatedcocaine)
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editbasen
Middle English
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editbasen
- Alternative form ofbasyn
Norwegian Bokmål
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editbasen m
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editbasen m
Polish
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editBorrowed fromFrenchbassin, fromOld Frenchbacin, fromVulgar Latin*baccinus,*baccinum, probably fromGaulish.
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editbasen m inan (diminutivebasenik)
- pool,swimming pool
- Synonym:pływalnia
- tank,basin(a collection point for liquids)
- basin(an area that drains into a larger body of water)
- Synonym:zlewisko
- Hypernym:akwen
- basen oceaniczny ―oceanbasin
- basen sedymentacyjny ―sedimentarybasin
- (nautical)wet dock
- basin,bedpan
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edit- (North Wales, standard,colloquial)IPA(key):/ˈbasɛn/
- (North Wales,colloquial)IPA(key):/ˈbasan/,/ˈbəsɛn/,/ˈbəsan/,/sɛn/,/san/
- (South Wales)IPA(key):/ˈbasɛn/
- (South Wales,colloquial)IPA(key):/ˈbəsɛn/,/sɛn/
- Rhymes:-asɛn
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