Verb:

गर्व पर प्रहार करना, पद में नीचा करना, बरताव करना, आचरण करना, पेश आना, अपमानित करना, व्यवहार करना, नीचा दिखाना,

demean's Usage Examples:

How are we to generate work that does not demean the laborer?

Toni maintains that her critiques of storylines in no way demean the great job the actors and writers do on the show.

demean black people.

If he had now resigned rather than demean himself by Icting against his conscience, it is by no means unlikely that he would have been recalled to power before many years were over.

The mother-in-law would demean her, as a way to abase the young wife in the son's eyes.

Pfuel only snorted contemptuously and turned away, to show that he would never demean himself by replying to such nonsense as he was now hearing.

Balashev began to feel uncomfortable: as envoy he feared to demean his dignity and felt the necessity of replying; but, as a man, he shrank before the transport of groundless wrath that had evidently seized Napoleon.

"You won't deign to demean yourself by marrying me, you..." said Helene, beginning to cry.

"You do not normally demean yourself by talking to someone as lowly as I am," he replied, turning.

And she'd never demean herself to that man.

Synonyms:

humiliate, humble, reduce, abase, dehumanize, put down, mortify, disgrace, dehumanise, take down, chagrin, degrade,

Antonyms:

raise, ascend, rise, better, humanize,