transitive. To bring to a vile or low condition; to abase or degrade. Also reflexive.

transitive. To cause to fall from a position of power, superiority, or virtue; to cause the downfall of, bring low. Obsolete.

to bring low: to bring to a poor or undesirable condition, with respect to health, wealth, strength, or circumstances; to humble; (also) to bring…

transitive. To degrade, abase. Obsolete.

transitive. To degrade.

transitive. To debase or degrade; to insult.

transitive. To cast or throw down; to lower, degrade, debase; to subject, subjugate.

transitive. To degrade, put or bring down.

transitive. To lower or lessen in worth or value; to reduce to a lower standing or level; to make of little (or less) account or estimation. Also refl…

(transitive vylonye) = villain, v. 1.

To lower in position or dignity; to degrade. Obsolete.

To lower in estimation; to bring into dishonour or contempt.

figurative. To cast down from high estate or dignity, depose; to lower in condition or character, to abase, humble. Obsolete.

transitive. To depose from a degree or dignity, deprive of rank or privilege; = disgrade, v., degraduate, v.

transitive. To remove from a position of honour; to deprive of authority; to demote. Cf. degrade, v.

transitive. To lower in rank, condition, or character; to debase, humble, depose, degrade. Cf. abase, v. 1, debase, v. 1. Scottish in later use.

transitive. To lessen; to belittle; = diminish, v. 3.

transitive. To lower the dignity, position, or character of; to degrade, demean. Now only reflexive.

transitive. To put down, send to a lower position in an order or ranking (as in a class at school, a competition, etc.; also figurative): cf…

transitive. figurative. colloquial to pitch (a person) over the bar: to deprive (a person) of the status of barrister, to disbar (a person); cf. bar…

transitive. To regard with the reverse of esteem; to hold in low estimation, regard lightly, think little (or nothing) of, slight, despise.

transitive. To reduce to a lower or worse condition or state; to cause to degenerate; to degrade. rare.

transitive. To make (a person or thing) no longer noble.

To deprive of one's rank, to reduce to a lower rank; to degrade.

transitive. To bring down to a lower rank, position, dignity, etc. Also without construction, and (occasionally) with infinitive.

To bring down, lower in dignity. Obsolete.

transitive. To remove from the throne; to dethrone, v. Also figurative.

transferred and figurative. = deplume, v. 2.

transitive. figurative. To deprive of honour, distinction, or prestige. Obsolete.

transitive. To deprive of nobility or grandeur; to disennoble, v.

transitive. To deprive of worth; to render worthless or unworthy.

transitive. To render villainous; to debase or degrade.

To deprive of glory.

transitive. To degrade.

transitive. To deprive of nobleness; to render ignoble: the reverse of to ennoble.

transitive. To vilify.

transitive. To depose from rank or dignity; to degrade from an office or position.

transitive. To render mean or base, to lower in dignity, abase. (In first quot. for demean = ‘behave.’)

figurative. To strip or deprive of honour, ornament, wealth, or the like.

transitive. To bring down in rank, station, or estimation; to degrade, dishonour; to humble. Also with to.

figurative. To lower in estimation, cause to be thought little of, bring into contempt, vilify.

transferred and figurative.

To lessen in importance, estimation, or power; to put down, degrade, humiliate; to detract from, disparage, belittle. archaic. (See also diminished…

transitive ? to treat as a scoundrel, to vilify.

transitive. To force to a lower level; to debase, degrade.

transitive. To lower in condition, status, reputation or character.

transitive. To abject.

(un-, prefix2 affix 1d(a).)

transitive. To reverse or counteract the magnification of; to diminish, reduce; to demagnify; to withdraw praise or honour from. Cf. earlier unmagn…

To make undignified.

figurative. Colloquial phrase to take the shine out of (less frequently from,U.S. off): to deprive (a person or thing) of his or its brilliance…

transitive. To deprive of the character of a hero.

transitive. = demean, v.2

transitive. To assign a lower grade, status, priority, value, etc., to (someone or something); to demote.

transitive. To reduce the status, level, or importance of (a thing); to downgrade.

transitive. To degrade or demote (a person, class of people, etc.) to the status of a mere object; to treat as an object; to reify. Also: to identify…