Borrowed from Middle French détracter, from Latin detractum, past participle of detraho.

• (British) IPA: /dɪˈtɹækt/

detract (detracts, present participle detracting; simple past and past participle detracted)

1. (intransitive) To take away; to withdraw or remove.
2. (transitive) To take credit or reputation from; to derogate; to defame or decry.
   • 1604, Michael Drayton, Moses in a Map of his Miracles:

     That calumnious critic […] / Detracting what laboriously we do.

• (to take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry) defame, decry
• See also Thesaurus:defame

• Russian: отнима́ть

• Russian: умалять
• Spanish: desvirtuar