Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

252; abasement; detrusion†; reduction. overthrow, overset†, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion, precipitation. bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion†, genuflection, kowtow, obeisance, salaam. V. depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude†, pitch, precipitate. overthrow, overturn, overset†; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; raze, raze to the ground, rase to the ground†; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears. sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline &c (be horizontal) 213. Adj. depressed &c v.; at a low ebb; prostrate &c (horizontal) 213; detrusive†. Phr. facinus quos inquinat aequat [Lat.] [Lucan].