Related Clues:
- Bust to private, e.g.
- Take stripes from
- Remove a stripe, perhaps
- Lower in dignity
- Lower the value of, as currency
- Bump down but keep on
- Reduce in grade
- Kick downstairs?
- Knock down in rank
- Take down a peg or two
- Tear a stripe off
- Demoralize
- Depreciate or humiliate
- Reduce in rank or value
- Make lower in prestige or esteem