demean

Pronunciation: /dɪˈmiːn/

The English word “demean” has 10 meanings listed here.

verb

To debase; to lower; to degrade.
To humble; to humiliate.
To mortify.
To manage; to conduct; to treat.
To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.
To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a data set).

noun

Management; treatment.
Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
demesne.
resources; means.

Etymology

(1595) From de- + mean (“lowly, base, common”), from Middle English mene, aphetic variation of imene (“mean, base, common”), from Old English ġemǣne (“mean, common”). Compare English bemean.

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