Definition of "demean" in Englisch

verb

1. To debase; to lower; to degrade.

2. To humble; to humiliate.

3. To mortify.

verb

1. (obsolete) To manage; to conduct; to treat.

2. (now rare) To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.

noun

1. (obsolete) Management; treatment.

2. (obsolete) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.

   • with grave demean and solemn vanity

noun

1. demesne.

2. resources; means.

verb

1. (statistics, transitive) To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a data set).