All bemean synonyms

verb bemean

• degrade — Something that degrades someone causes people to have less respect for them.
• shame — the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.
• disgrace — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
• dishonor — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
• cheapen — If something cheapens a person or thing, it lowers their reputation or position.
• demean — If you demean yourself, you do something which makes people have less respect for you.
• demoralize — If something demoralizes someone, it makes them lose so much confidence in what they are doing that they want to give up.
• humiliate — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
• debase — To debase something means to reduce its value or quality.
• lessen — to become less.
• impair — to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
• downgrade — a downward slope, especially of a road.
• discredit — to injure the credit or reputation of; defame: an effort to discredit honest politicians.
• vitiate — to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
• degenerate — If you say that someone or something degenerates, you mean that they become worse in some way, for example weaker, lower in quality, or more dangerous.
• diminish — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
• deteriorate — If something deteriorates, it becomes worse in some way.
• despise — If you despise something or someone, you dislike them and have a very low opinion of them.
• degrade — Something that degrades someone causes people to have less respect for them.
• crush — To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
• chasten — If you are chastened by something, it makes you regret that you have behaved badly or stupidly.
• subdue — to conquer and bring into subjection: Rome subdued Gaul.
• chagrin — Chagrin is a feeling of disappointment, upset, or annoyance, perhaps because of your own failure.
• confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
• upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
• deflate — If you deflate someone or something, you take away their confidence or make them seem less important.
• confound — If someone or something confounds you, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong.
• mortify — to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
• overcome — to get the better of in a struggle or conflict; conquer; defeat: to overcome the enemy.
• depress — If someone or something depresses you, they make you feel sad and disappointed.
• shame — the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.
• lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
• debauch — to lead into a life of depraved self-indulgence
• humble — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
• reduce — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
• cripple — A person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as a cripple.
• devalue — To devalue something means to cause it to be thought less impressive or less deserving of respect.
• abase — to humble or belittle (oneself, etc)
• corrupt — Someone who is corrupt behaves in a way that is morally wrong, especially by doing dishonest or illegal things in return for money or power.
• disable — make not work
• sink — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
• debilitate — If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
• deprave — Something that depraves someone makes them morally bad or evil.
• sap — Fortification. a deep, narrow trench constructed so as to form an approach to a besieged place or an enemy's position.
• devaluate — (transitive) To reduce in value.
• undermine — to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
• weaken — to make weak or weaker.
• pervert — to affect with perversion.
• bump — If you bump into something or someone, you accidentally hit them while you are moving.
• slam — the winning or bidding of all the tricks or all the tricks but one in a deal. Compare grand slam (def 1), little slam.