Adjective demeaning has 1 sense
- demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying - causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"
Antonym: dignified (indirect, via undignified)
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Verb demean has 1 sense
- take down, degrade, disgrace, demean, put down - reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"
--1 is one way to humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
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