DEMEAN


Meaning of DEMEAN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪmi:n ]

( demeans, demeaning, demeaned)

1.

If you demean yourself , you do something which makes people have less respect for you.

I wasn’t going to demean myself by acting like a suspicious wife.

VERB : V pron-refl

2.

To demean someone or something means to make people have less respect for them.

Some groups say that pornography demeans women.

= degrade

VERB : V n

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