To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
1. Bailiff. [Obs.] 2. Same as Bailie. [Scot.]
To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.