Thesaurus:demean
English
Verb
(transitive)
Sense: to cause to be lower in status or social position
Synonyms
- abase
- bring down to size (idiomatic)
- cut down to size (idiomatic)
- debase (archaic)
- defame
- degrade
- demean
- demote
- depress
- discredit
- disgrace
- dishonour
- disparage
- downgrade
- embase (archaic)
- give a bad name
- humble [⇒ thesaurus]
- humiliate
- knock down to size (idiomatic)
- put someone in their place (idiomatic)
- reduce
- relegate
- sink (figurative)
- slur
- trim down to size (idiomatic)
- whittle down to size (idiomatic)
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Further reading
- “874. disrepute” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “demean” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.