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verb
- 1. cause a severe loss in the dignity of and respect for (someone or something): "I had demeaned the profession"
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verb [ T ] us / dɪˈmin / Add to word list. to cause to become less respected: I wouldn’t demean myself by asking my father for money. demeaning. adjective us / dɪˈmi·nɪŋ /
to cause someone to become less respected: The entire family was demeaned by his behavior. demean yourself I wouldn't demean myself by asking my parents for money. Synonyms. degrade. disgrace. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Humiliating and degrading. abasement. be under a cloud idiom. bring/take someone down a peg (or two) idiom.
There are two words spelled demean in English. One has a construction similar to its synonym, debase: where debase combines the prefix de- with an adjective base, meaning “low” or “vile,” demean applies de- to the adjective mean, meaning “inferior or contemptible.”.
1. verb. If you demean yourself, you do something which makes people have less respect for you. He plays a struggling immigrant who is forced to demean himself with a series of bread line jobs. [VERB pronoun-reflexive] 2. verb. To demean someone or something means to make people have less respect for them.
Definition of demean verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
verb [ T ] uk / dɪˈmiːn / us / dɪˈmiːn / to cause someone to become less respected: The entire family was demeaned by his behaviour. I wouldn't demean my self by asking my parents for money. Synonyms. degrade. disgrace. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Humiliating and degrading. abasement. be under a cloud idiom.
To demean is to degrade or put down a person or thing. If you noticed the word mean in demean, that's a good clue to its meaning. To demean someone is very mean. You are demeaning your sister or brother if you run their underwear up a flagpole.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English de‧mean /dɪˈmiːn/ verb [ transitive] to do something that makes people lose respect for someone or something → degrade language that demeans women demean yourself (by doing something) I wouldn’t demean myself by begging him for a job. → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus demean • The psycholog...
Demean definition: to lower in dignity, honor, or standing; debase. See examples of DEMEAN used in a sentence.
Definitions of 'demean' 1. If you demean yourself, you do something which makes people have less respect for you. [...] 2. To demean someone or something means to make people have less respect for them. [...] More. Conjugations of 'demean' present simple: I demean, you demean [...] past simple: I demeaned, you demeaned [...]
