Definitions
1.verbTo debase; to lower; to degrade.
2.verbTo humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
3.verbTo mortify.
4.verbTo manage; to conduct; to treat.
5.verb(now rare) To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.
6.verbTo subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset).