Demean

v. t.	1.	To manage; to conduct; to treat. [imp. & p. p. Demeaned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Demeaning.] [Our] 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.
n.	1.	Management; treatment. Vile demean and usage bad. - Spenser.
	2.	Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor. With grave demean and solemn vanity. - West.
	1.	Demesne.
	2.	Resources; means. You know How narrow our demeans are. - Massinger.

Verb

1.

demean - reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture" Synonyms: degrade, disgrace, take down, put down

abase, abash, acquit, belittle, bring down, bring low, cast down, conduct, contemn, crush, debase, decry, degrade, deport, derogate, despise, detract, diminish, disparage, dump, dump on, go on, humiliate, lower, put down, quit, reduce, scorn, set down, sink, take down, trip up