To detract from (something); to disparage, belittle.
To remove a part, to detract from (a quality of excellence, authority etc.).
To act in a manner below oneself; to debase oneself.
To take away (something from something else) in a way which leaves it lessened.
To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
An error; a blunder.
A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.