Usually means: Reduces the dignity of someone.
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  1. demeans: Merriam-Webster
  2. demeans: Collins English Dictionary
  3. demeans: Vocabulary.com
  4. demeans: Wordnik
  5. demeans: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. demeans: Wiktionary
  7. demeans: Dictionary.com
  8. demeans: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. demeans: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. demeans: Legal dictionary

(Note: See demean as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (demean)

verb:  To debase; to lower; to degrade.
verb:  To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
verb:  To mortify.
verb:  (obsolete) To manage; to conduct; to treat.
verb:  (now rare) To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.
noun:  (obsolete) Management; treatment.
noun:  (obsolete) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
noun:  demesne.
noun:  resources; means.
verb:  (statistics, transitive) To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a data set).
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