demean vs lower

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. 

(lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity. 

To decrease in value, amount, etc. 

To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program. 

To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of 

To bring down; to humble 

To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down 

To reduce the height of 

To depress as to direction 

to pull down 

To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc. 

To make less elevated 

To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease