Concept cluster: Activities > Demoting
n
The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression.
adj
(archaic) Pertaining to taking away or removing.
v
(transitive) To render null and void; to abrogate.
v
Alternative form of derank [(linguistics) To inflect into a form that cannot be used in independent declarative clauses.]
n
The act of deactivating something, such as a bomb or alarm.
v
To displace from the centre.
n
One who decommissions.
n
simplification
n
One who, or that which, deconstructs.
n
One who, or that which, deforms.
n
The process of selling off assets in order to reduce debt.
v
(transitive) To deprive of a house or houses.
n
One who, or that which, deletes.
n
(computing) In an email reply, material omitted from the quoted original.
n
The act of deleting.
v
To demote, or be demoted, to a lower level.
n
The disposal of subsidiaries or divisions of a company.
n
The disorganization or disarming of troops which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing; the act of demobilizing.
v
(transitive) To lower the rank or status of.
n
One who is demoted.
v
(transitive, publishing) To reduce the price of (a book) below its agreed-upon net value with the publisher.
v
(transitive, Internet) To demote (an IRC operator) from operator status.
n
(Internet) The demotion of an IRC user from operator status.
n
(computing, informal) A dependency.
n
(historical) A member of the lowest of the three population classes created by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge party in Cambodia after their revolution in the 1970s. These people were 'deposited' in the villages after being removed from the cities.
v
(transitive) To degrade (a clergyman) from office.
v
(military) To strip of rank; demote.
v
(transitive) To change the role of (workers) so that they are no longer required or able to use the skills that they have acquired.
n
One who deskills.
v
(transitive) Synonym of dispirit
v
(transitive) To make something unstable.
n
(West Africa) Act or process of destooling, or removing a chief from power.
n
One who or that which detaches.
n
The act of detracting something, or something detracted; taking away; diminution.
n
One who, or that which, disables.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar.
v
To counter the affects of attenuation
v
(transitive) To put out of harmony.
n
The act of disbanding
adj
(medicine) Operating independently; not joined in action.
v
US standard spelling of disenamour. [(transitive) To free from being in love; to cause to fall out of love.]
v
(transitive, of a person) To free from illusion, false belief or enchantment; to undeceive or disillusion.
n
The release or separation of a chemical.
v
To reverse a previous enrichment.
v
(obsolete) To degrade; to reduce in rank.
v
To change the status of (someone or something) that is implicated into one where it is not implicated; to disprove or call into question an implication concerning.
v
To deprive of corporate rights.
n
The act of disjoining; disunion, separation.
n
The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
n
Something that dislocates
n
One who, or that which, dislodges.
n
One who dismantles.
n
An act or instance of dispelling.
v
Obsolete spelling of dispel [(transitive) To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.]
n
One who, or that which, dispels.
n
The act of dispelling.
n
(archaic) Depopulation.
n
One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator.
n
One who, or that which, displaces.
n
The act of dispelling (e.g. myths or rumors), or the state of being dispelled.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To degrade from rank.
adj
of or pertaining to disuniates.
n
separation of a union
n
One who divests.
n
One who effaces.
v
(archaic, transitive) To lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc.); to debase (a coin) with alloy.
adj
That has undergone exorcism.
n
(archaic, formal) The act of expiscating; fishing.
n
(US, Canada) The process by which the record of a criminal conviction is erased, destroyed or sealed.
v
(transitive) To make or treat as inferior.
n
A makeover in which the quality, flashiness or value of something is downgraded.
v
To reduce to a minimum.
v
(transitive) To reduce to, or treat as, nothing; to eliminate or disregard entirely.
adj
propulsive
n
The act, process, or result of reducing.
n
An individual's legal right to have certain information about themselves deleted, so as to ensure their privacy.
v
To undo the alienation of.
v
To degrade from the cardinalship.
v
(transitive) To free from delusion.
v
(transitive) To deprive of the results of education.
n
undeletion
v
(transitive) To make no longer level; to apply a bias to.
v
(transitive) To deprive of men.
v
(transitive) To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate.
v
(transitive) To remove some qualification or specialization from.
v
(transitive) To cause to appear less attractive to consumers or adherents.
n
Disruptive change, from one state to another.

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