demean

verb
🔊/dɪˈmiːn/
🔊/dɪˈmiːn/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they demean
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he / she / it demeans
🔊/dɪˈmiːnz/
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past simple demeaned
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past participle demeaned
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-ing form demeaning
🔊/dɪˈmiːnɪŋ/
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  1. demean yourself to do something that makes people have less respect for you降低身份;失去尊重
    • I wouldn't demean myself by asking for charity.我决不低三下四地乞求施舍。🔊🔊
  2. demean somebody/something to make people have less respect for somebody/something贬低;贬损;使失尊严 synonym degrade
    • Such images demean women.这些形象有损妇女尊严。🔊🔊
    • Behaviour like this demeans politics.此类行为贬低政治。
  3. Word Originearly 17th cent.: from de- ‘away, down’ + the adjective mean, on the pattern of debase.