demean
verb /dɪˈmiːn/
/dɪˈmiːn/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they demean | /dɪˈmiːn/ /dɪˈmiːn/ |
| he / she / it demeans | /dɪˈmiːnz/ /dɪˈmiːnz/ |
| past simple demeaned | /dɪˈmiːnd/ /dɪˈmiːnd/ |
| past participle demeaned | /dɪˈmiːnd/ /dɪˈmiːnd/ |
| -ing form demeaning | /dɪˈmiːnɪŋ/ /dɪˈmiːnɪŋ/ |
- demean yourself to do something that makes people have less respect for you
- I wouldn't demean myself by asking for charity.
- demean somebody/something to make people have less respect for somebody/something synonym degrade
- Such images demean women.
- Behaviour like this demeans politics.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from de- ‘away, down’ + the adjective mean, on the pattern of debase.