Word Meanings - DEMEAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

struggledé- + mener to lead, drive, carry on, conduct, fr. L. minare to drive animals by threatening cries, fr. minari to threaten. 1. To manage; to conduct; to treat. clergy have with violence demeaned the matter. Milton. 2. To conduct; to

Additional info about word: DEMEAN

struggledé- + mener to lead, drive, carry on, conduct, fr. L. minare to drive animals by threatening cries, fr. minari to threaten. 1. To manage; to conduct; to treat. clergy have with violence demeaned the matter. Milton. 2. To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. They have demeaned themselves Like men born to renown by life or death. Shak. They answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions. Clarendon. 3. To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. Her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter. Thackeray. Note: This sense is probably due to a false etymology which regarded the word as connected with the adjective mean.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEMEAN)

• Abase
• Degrade
• disgrace
• bring low
• reduce
• humble
• demean
• stoop
• humiliate
• depress
• lower
• sink
• dishonor
• Comport
• Demean
• conduct
• carry
• behove
• tally
• consist
• harmonize
• match
• agree
• suit
• coincide

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEMEAN)

• Hoist
• raise
• heighten
• exalt
• increase
• aggrandize
• elevate

Related words: (words related to DEMEAN)

• BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
  See WORM
• BROKERY
  The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.
• BREVIARY
  summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A
• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• BRAZIL NUT
  An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell.
• BRAST
  To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• BROID
  To braid. Chaucer.
• BROIDERER
  One who embroiders.
• BRUISEWORT
  A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
• BRAWNER
  A boor killed for the table.
• BEHOVE
  , and derivatives. See Behoove, & c.
• BRACHIOGANOID
  One of the Brachioganoidei.
• BRITANNIC
  Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.
• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• BRACTLESS
  Destitute of bracts.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• OPPROBRIOUS
  1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• TECTIBRANCHIA
  See TECTIBRANCHIATA
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• BRASIER; BRAZIER
  An artificer who works in brass. Franklin.
• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• CAMBRIC
  1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak. 2. A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• SUBBRONCHIAL
  Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds.