All 3 Uses
demote
in
Gone with the Wind
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- "What you can't forget," cut in Melanie, clenching her small fists against her sides, "is that she demoted Hugh because he wasn't smart enough to run her mill."†
Chpt 5.49
- And she was so incensed at your demoting Hugh from the management of the mill.†
Chpt 5.55 *
- But you were quite right in demoting him.†
Chpt 5.55
Definitions:
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(1)
(demote) reduce in rank or assign to a lower position
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)