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demeaned

/dɪˈmiːnd/ /diˈmiːnd/

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verb

To debase; to lower; to degrade.

Examples :

"The manager demeaned his employee by yelling at him in front of the whole team. "

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verb

To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.

Examples :

"The boss demeaning his employees in front of clients made them feel small and worthless. "

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verb

Examples :

"The boss demeaned his employee by publicly criticizing his mistake in front of the entire team. "

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verb

To manage; to conduct; to treat.

Examples :

"The manager demeaned the new employee by assigning them only menial tasks. "

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(now rare) To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.

Examples :

"The knight demaned himself with honor and courage in the face of danger, upholding the chivalric code. "

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verb

To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset).

Examples :

"Before calculating the correlation, the statistician demeaned each student's test score by subtracting the average score from it. "

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