lose caste

verb

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA