The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ABASE , but the solution may also be BUST which is one of the most recent solution (2011 in CrossSynergy).
Demote crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ABASE | 27 % | 5 |
| BUMP | 18 % | 4 |
| DEGRADE | 9 % | 7 |
| RELEGATE | 9 % | 8 |
| LOWER | 9 % | 5 |
| DOWNGRADE | 9 % | 9 |
| BUST | 9 % | 4 |
| DISRATE | 9 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Demote
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- relegate
- break
- bump
- kick downstairs
- downgrade
- degradation
- degrade
- reduce
- spoil
- revert
- return
- reassign
Crossword Answer definitions
ABASE verb- To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
- To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
- To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result ABASE
More clues leading to the result BUMP
- Phrenologist's interest
- Jostle
- Minor collision
- Increase
- Result of bonking one's head
- Displace
- Promote or demote
- Road imperfection
- Cause for an apology
- Raise, in poker
More clues leading to the result DEGRADE
- Put down
- Lower
- Reduce in rank.
- Take down a peg.
- Bring low.
- Humble.
- Lower in rank.
- Lower in status.
- Drag in the dust.
- Bring into contempt
More clues leading to the result RELEGATE
- Exile (to)
- Consign
- Consign to an inferior position
- Consign (to)
- Send (to), as an inferior place
- Exile
- Banish
- Consign.
- Dismiss as of minor import.
- Banish.
More clues leading to the result LOWER
- Decrease
- Devaluate
- Remove, as artwork
- Request from one getting a backrub
- Put down
- Mark down in price
- Reduce
- Bring down
- Bunk option
- Not as high
More clues leading to the result DOWNGRADE
- Minimize
- Rating reduction responsible for the answers to starred clues
- Demote to a less skilled job.
- Declivity.
- Demote.
- Road slope.
- Slope of a kind.
- Belittle
- Reduce in importance
- Feather quality?
More clues leading to the result BUST
- Failure
- Sculptor's creation
- Sculpture
- It's put on a pedestal
- First-round draft pick that goes nowhere
- Hourglass part?
- Police raid
- Utter failure
- Marble head?
- Sculptor's portrait