demean

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

de·mean [demean demeans demeaned demeaning] BrE [dɪˈmiːn] NAmE [dɪˈmiːn] verb
1. ~ yourself to do sth that makes people have less respect for you
•I wouldn't demean myself by asking for charity.
2. ~ sb/sth to make people have less respect for sb/sth
Syn: ↑degrade
•Such images demean women.
•Behaviour like this demeans politics.
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Word Origin:
early 17th cent.: from ↑de- ‘away, down’ + the adjective ↑mean, on the pattern of debase.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  take down, degrade, disgrace, put down