defameth

Verb

defame (third-person singular simple present defames, present participle defaming, simple past and past participle defamed)

1. To disgrace; to bring into disrepute.
   • My guilt thy growing virtues did defame; / My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name.1697, Virgil, “The Tenth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   discredit, dishonour, humiliate, abase, bring down to size, cut down to size, debase, degrade, demean, demote

2. (historical) To charge; to accuse (someone) of an offence.
   • Rebecca is […] defamed of sorcery practised on the person of a noble knight.

   Synonyms:

   denounce, finger, inculpate, accuse, atwite, blame, bumble, challenge, cop out, decry

3. To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage.
   • to defame somebody

   Synonyms:

   besmirch, libel, slander

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