The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word DEMEANS
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What does DEMEANS mean?
DEMEANS verb- To debase; to lower; to degrade.
- To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
- To mortify.
- To manage; to conduct; to treat.
- (now rare) To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.
- To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset).