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demean🔊

To debase; to lower; to degrade.

💬 Quotations
It was, of course, Mrs. Sedley's opinion that her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.

To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.

To mortify.

(obsolete) To manage; to conduct; to treat.

💬 Quotations
But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.

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

(obsolete) Management; treatment.

(obsolete) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.

Demesne.

Resources; means.

(statistics) To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a data set).

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