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denigrate 音标拼音: [d'ɛnəgr ,et] vt. 使变黑,玷污,诋毁 使变黑,玷污,诋毁 denigrate v 1: cause to seem less serious; play down; " Don' t belittle his influence" [ synonym: { minimize}, { belittle}, { denigrate}, { 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" [ synonym: { defame}, { slander}, { smirch}, { asperse}, { denigrate}, { calumniate}, { smear}, { sully}, { besmirch}] Denigrate \ Den" i* grate\, v. t. [ L. denigrare; de- nigrare to blacken, niger black.] 1. To blacken thoroughly; to make very black. -- Boyle. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] To denigrate the memory of Voltaire. -- Morley. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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