Synset

assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
<verb.social> freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1

"She was demoted because she always speaks up"
"He was broken down to Sergeant"

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something PP

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something PP

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something PP

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something PP

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something PP

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

antonym

lexical pointers

also see

semantic pointers

hypernym

hyponym