discredit
Verb
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Verb
discredit (discredits, present participle discrediting; past and past participle discredited)
- (transitive) To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false or unreliable.
- The candidate tried to discredit his opponent.
- The evidence would tend to discredit such a theory.
- French: discréditer
- German: (please verify) in#German|in Misskredit bringen , diskreditieren
- Italian: screditare
- Portuguese: desacreditar
- Russian: дискредити́ровать
- Spanish: desacreditar, descreer
discredit
- (countable or uncountable) Discrediting or disbelieving.
- (countable) A person or thing that causes harm to a reputation, as of a person, family, or institution.
- (uncountable) The state of being discredited or disbelieved.
- Later accounts have brought the story into discredit.
- (uncountable) A degree of dishonour or disesteem; ill repute; reproach.
- 1815, Doctor Rogers, “A good Life the best Ornament of the Christian Profession” (sermon), in Family Lectures: or, a copious Collection of Sermons, F. C. and J. Rivington et al., page 351:
- It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession.
- 1815, Doctor Rogers, “A good Life the best Ornament of the Christian Profession” (sermon), in Family Lectures: or, a copious Collection of Sermons, F. C. and J. Rivington et al., page 351:
- (degree of dishonour) demerit
- French: discrédit
- German: Misskredit
- Italian: vergogna, onta, disdoro, disonore, infamia
- Portuguese: descrédito
- Spanish: descrédito
- Portuguese: descrédito
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