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Detract :: Detract (v. t.) To take credit or reputation from; to defame.

Detract :: Detract (v. i.) To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from..

Detractory :: Detractory (a.) Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious.

Depravation :: Depravation (n.) Detraction; depreciation.

Obtrectation :: Obtrectation (n.) Slander; detraction; calumny.

Detracter :: Detracter (n.) One who detracts; a detractor.

Derogation :: Derogation (n.) The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to..

Detraction :: Detraction (n.) A taking away or withdrawing.

Detractious :: Detractious (a.) Containing detraction; detractory.

Backbiter :: Backbiter (n.) One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.

Defamation :: Defamation (n.) Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion..

Calumny :: Calumny (n.) False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction..

Derogate :: Derogate (v. i.) To take away; to detract; to withdraw; -- usually with from.

Backbite :: Backbite (v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).

Detraction :: Detraction (n.) The act of taking away from the reputation or good name of another; a lessening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the act of depreciating another, from envy or malice; calumny..

Detractive :: Detractive (a.) Tending to detractor draw.

Dispraise :: Dispraise (v. t.) The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement.

Elevate :: Elevate (v. t.) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.

Backbiting :: Backbiting (n.) Secret slander; detraction.

Derogate :: Derogate (v. t.) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage; to depreciate; -- said of a person or thing.

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