bring down vs demean

bring down

verb
  • To humble. 

  • To cause to fall down, e.g. in an accident. 

  • To reduce. 

  • To make something, especially something flying, fall to the ground, usually by firing a weapon of some kind. 

  • To make someone feel bad emotionally. 

  • To make a ruler lose their position of power. 

  • To cause an opponent to fall after a tackle. 

demean

verb
  • To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate. 

  • To debase; to lower; to degrade. 

  • To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset). 

  • To mortify. 

noun
  • resources; means. 

  • demesne. 

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