different between debunk vs demean

English

Etymology

de- +? bunk (from bunkum, from Buncombe County) 1923

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /di??b??k/, /di??b??k/
• (US) enPR: d?-b?ngk?, d?-b?ngk?, IPA^(key): /d??b??k/, /?di??b??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Verb

debunk (third-person singular simple present debunks, present participle debunking, simple past and past participle debunked)

1. (transitive) To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something.

   The explosion story was thoroughly debunked on National Public Radio in November 1999.

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Anagrams

• bunked

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??mi?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Etymology 1

(1595) From de- +? mean (“lowly, base, common”), from Middle English mene, aphetic variation of imene (“mean, base, common”), from Old English ?em?ne (“mean, common”). Compare English bemean.

Verb

demean (third-person singular simple present demeans, present participle demeaning, simple past and past participle demeaned)

1. To debase; to lower; to degrade.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 6:

     It was, of course, Mrs. Sedley's opinion that her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.

2. To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
3. To mortify.

Synonyms

• debase
• lower
• degrade

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Etymology 2

From Middle English demenen, demeinen, from Anglo-Norman demener, from Old French demener, from de- + mener (“to conduct, lead”), from Vulgar Latin *min?re (“to drive”) and Latin min?r? (“to threaten”).

Verb

demean (third-person singular simple present demeans, present participle demeaning, simple past and past participle demeaned)

1. (obsolete) To manage; to conduct; to treat.
   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica

     But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.

2. (now rare) To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.

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Noun

demean (usually uncountable, plural demeans)

1. (obsolete) Management; treatment.
2. (obsolete) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.5:

     ‘When thou hast all this doen, then bring me newes / Of his demeane […].’

   • 1739, Gilbert West, A canto of the Fairy Queen (later called On the Abuse of Travelling)

     with grave demean and solemn vanity

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Related terms

• demeanor

Etymology 3

Variant of demesne.

Noun

demean (plural demeans)

1. demesne.
2. resources; means.

Translations

Etymology 4

de- +? mean

Verb

demean (third-person singular simple present demeans, present participle demeaning, simple past and past participle demeaned)

1. (statistics, transitive) To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset).
   • 2013, Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Katrin Golsch, and Alexander W. Schmidt, Applied Panel Data Analysis for Economic and Social Surveys, page 177:

     Concerning FE estimation, it makes no difference whether you demean the data with unit-specific means computed on (balanced) T observations per unit, or with unit-specific means computed on (unbalanced) T_i observations per unit.

Anagrams

• Medean, Nadeem, amende, amened, dename, meaned