verb๐ShareTo debase; to lower; to degrade."The manager demeaned his employee by yelling at him in front of the whole team. "moralcharacterattitudeemotionsocietyhumanpersonactionmindChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb๐ShareTo humble, humble oneself; to humiliate."The boss demeaning his employees in front of clients made them feel small and worthless. "attitudecharacteractionmoralvaluehumanChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb๐ShareTo mortify."The boss demeaned his employee by publicly criticizing his mistake in front of the entire team. "emotionhumancharacterattitudemindmoralChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb๐ShareTo manage; to conduct; to treat."The manager demeaned the new employee by assigning them only menial tasks. "attitudecharacteractionhumansocietymoralChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb๐Share(now rare) To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun."The knight demaned himself with honor and courage in the face of danger, upholding the chivalric code. "actionhumanChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb๐ShareTo subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset)."Before calculating the correlation, the statistician demeaned each student's test score by subtracting the average score from it. "mathstatisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
