lose caste
verbDefinitions
To lose one's status as a member of one's caste of birth.
- An uncle of mine in Delhi thinks that I have become polluted, that I have lost caste by working with leather.
To fall in social standing
To fall in social standing; to suffer a loss of status or reputation.
- He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship to the lowest depth of the most snubbed hen-peckery.
- […] I don’t know but that an instructor may lose caste by eating among a miscellany of undergraduates.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for lose caste. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA