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uncredit

uncredit verb: to cause to be disbelieved; to discredit.

Verb

uncredit (third-person singular simple present uncredits, present participle uncrediting, simple past and past participle uncredited)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to be disbelieved; to discredit.
    • Then was it Kilvert's design to uncredit the testimony of Pregion1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
  2. (transitive) To deduct the amount of payment that was previously credited to an account.
    • But, unfortunately, if the promises to pay are not fulfilled, the Reparation Commission will later have to uncredit Germany's account.1972, Harold Glenn Moulton, Constantine Edward McGuire, Germany's Capacity to Pay: A Study of the Reparation Problem

Forms of uncredit

third-person singular presentuncredits
present participleuncrediting
past participleuncredited
pastuncredited

Origin of uncredit

From un- + credit.

Phrases with uncredit

Questions about uncredit

What does uncredit mean?
Uncredit means to cause to be disbelieved; to discredit.
What part of speech is uncredit?
Uncredit is a verb.
What is the past tense of uncredit?
The past tense of uncredit is uncredited.

Words near uncredit in the dictionary

  1. uncredentialed
  2. uncredentialled
  3. uncredibility
  4. uncredible
  5. uncredibly
  6. uncredit
  7. uncredit card
  8. uncredit cards
  9. uncreditable
  10. uncreditableness
  11. uncreditably

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