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demean

/dɪˈmiːn/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To debase; to lower; to degrade.
  2. To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
  3. To mortify.
  4. Management; treatment.
  5. Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
  6. To manage; to conduct; to treat.
  7. (now rare) To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.
  8. Demesne.
  9. Resources; means.
  10. To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset).

Etymology / origin

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Related words

degrade(English)disgrace(English)put down(English)humiliate(English)abase(English)devalue(English)trash(English)humble(English)ares(English)sexual(English)herself(English)women(English)

Descendant words

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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