dishonouring

Verb

dishonour (third-person singular simple present dishonours, present participle dishonouring, simple past and past participle dishonoured)

1. (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, UK) To bring disgrace upon someone or something; to shame.
   • You have dishonoured the family.

   Synonyms:

   discomfit, humiliate, mortify, abase, abash, bring low, confuse, confound, debase, degrade

2. (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, UK) To refuse to accept something, such as a cheque; to not honor.
   • disworshipping and dishonouring God1684, Obadiah Walker, A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon All the Epistles of St Paul
3. (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, UK) To violate or rape.
   • “My men, the schooner coming up on our weather quarter is a Portuguese pirate. His character is known; he scuttles all the ships he boards, dishonours the women, and murders the crew.”1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash

   Synonyms:

   defoul, outrage, ravish, abuse, constuprate, defile, force, misuse, oppress, pollute

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