Denigrate \Den"i*grate\, v. t. [L. denigrare; de- + nigrare to
blacken, niger black.]
1. To blacken thoroughly; to make very black. --Boyle.
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2. Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame. [R.]
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To denigrate the memory of Voltaire. --Morley.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
denigrate
v 1: belittle; "Don't belittle his influence" [syn: minimize, belittle,
derogate]
2: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good
name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have
defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my
reputation" [syn: defame, slander, smirch, asperse,
calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch]
WordNet (r) 2.0
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "denigrate":
asperse, bedarken, besmirch, bespatter, black, blacken, blackwash,
blot, blotch, call names, calumniate, charcoal, cork, darken,
defame, defile, deprecate, depreciate, despise, dinge, discommend,
disdain, disparage, dispraise, disvalue, ebonize,
engage in personalities, heap dirt upon, hold in contempt, ink,
libel, melanize, muckrake, murk, nigrify, oversmoke, put down,
revile, ridicule, scandalize, shade, shadow, slander, smear,
smirch, smoke, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soot, stigmatize, sully,
tarnish, tear down, throw mud at, traduce, vilify
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
asperse, belittle, besmirch, calumniate, defame, derogate, markovian parallax denigrate, minimize, slander, smear, smirch, sully
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