traduce
/tɹəˈdjuːs/US/tɹəˈdus/
traduce verb: to malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
Verb
traduce (third-person singular simple present traduces, present participle traducing, simple past and past participle traduced)
- To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
- This heauy headed reueale eaſt and weſt / Makes vs traduſt, and taxed of other nations, / They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition […]c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604...
- Well I'll not debate how far Scandal may be allowable—but in a man I am sure it is always contemtable.—We have Pride, envy, Rivalship, and a Thousand motives to depreciate each other—but the male-slanderer must have the cowardice of a woman before He can traduce one.1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, I.i
- To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.
- However therefore this complexion was first acquired, it is evidently maintained by generation, and by the tincture of the skin as a spermatical part traduced from father unto son […].1650, Thomas Browne, chapter X, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
- To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.
- From Davenant down to Dumas, from the Englishman who improved Macbaeth to the Frenchman who traduced into the French of Paris four acts of Hamlet, and added a new fifth act of his own, Shakespeare has been disturbed in a way he little thought of when he menacingly provided for the repose of his...1865 Mar, “The Last of the Tercentenary”, in Temple Bar, volume XIII
traduce meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
traduce in Tamil
- to traduce, slander
- தூறு tūṟu
traduce in Malayalam
- മിഥ്യാപഴിക്കുക, അപകീർത്തിപ്പെടുത്തുക, അപവാദം പറയുക
Examples of traduce in a sentence
- I am earnestly desirous then, my dear Sir, that you should let the world into the traits of your genuine character, as civil broils may otherwise tend to disguise or traduce it.1771–1790, Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography [Part 2]”, in John Bigelow, editor, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. […], Philadelphia...
- “The chief men of the Jews became his enemies and traduced him to the principal persons in the town, hoping to make him ashamed or afraid.”1881, The Gospel in All Lands, page 176:
- What manner of cur are you that you traduce the character of a good woman whom we believe dead!1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 201:
- Someone must have traduced Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.1935, W. & E. Muir, transl., The Trial, translation of Der Prozess by Franz Kafka:
Synonyms of traduce
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Forms of traduce
| third-person singular present | traduces |
|---|---|
| present participle | traducing |
| past participle | traduced |
| past | traduced |
Origin of traduce
From Latin trādūcō (“carry over; lead as a spectacle, dishonor”), from trāns + dūcō (“to lead”). Doublet of transduce, from Latin trānsdūcō.
Words formed from traduce
Words that rhyme with traduce
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- deduce
- sluice
- unloose
- educe
- effuse
- introduce
- mousse
- produce
- recluse
- reproduce
- Rus
- seduce
- spruce
- excuse
- moose
- transduce
- vamoose
- Zeus
- abduce
- abstruse
- adduce
- cruse
- diffuse
- disuse
- doos
- douce
- overproduce
- papoose
- reuse
- truce
- unsluice
- Al-Andalus
- ashy-headed goose
- boose
- burnoose
- caduce
- ceruse
- charlotte russe
- Emden goose
- fog juice
- hoose
- ill-use
- incuse
- luce
- misuse
- noose
- obstruse
- overuse
Questions about traduce
- What does traduce mean?
- Traduce means to malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
- What is traduce in Tamil?
- Traduce in Tamil is தூறு (tūṟu). See Traduce meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use traduce in a sentence?
- I am earnestly desirous then, my dear Sir, that you should let the world into the traits of your genuine character, as civil broils may otherwise tend to disguise or traduce it.
- What part of speech is traduce?
- Traduce is a verb.
- How do you pronounce traduce?
- Traduce is pronounced /tɹəˈdjuːs/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of traduce?
- The past tense of traduce is traduced.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: traduce (page history and authors); தூறு (Tamil) (page history and authors); traduce (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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