DISCREDIT
\dɪskɹˈɛdɪt], \dɪskɹˈɛdɪt], \d_ɪ_s_k_ɹ_ˈɛ_d_ɪ_t]\
Definitions of DISCREDIT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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cause to be distrusted or disbelieved; "The paper discredited the politician with its nasty commentary"
By Princeton University
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cause to be distrusted or disbelieved; "The paper discredited the politician with its nasty commentary"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.
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To refuse credence to; not to accept as true; to disbelieve; as, the report is discredited.
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To deprive of credibility; to destroy confidence or trust in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of.
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To deprive of credit or good repute; to bring reproach upon; to make less reputable; to disgrace.
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Hence, some degree of dishonor or disesteem; ill repute; reproach; - applied to persons or things.
By Oddity Software
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The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.
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To refuse credence to; not to accept as true; to disbelieve; as, the report is discredited.
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To deprive of credibility; to destroy confidence or trust in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of.
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To deprive of credit or good repute; to bring reproach upon; to make less reputable; to disgrace.
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Hence, some degree of dishonor or disesteem; ill repute; reproach; - applied to persons or things.
By Noah Webster.
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Lack of belief; distrust; lack of reputation; dishonor.
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To refuse to believe; to dishonor; to take away reputation from.
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Discreditably.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Discreditably.
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To refuse credit to, or belief in: to deprive of credibility: to deprive of credit: to disgrace.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To disbelieve; injure the credit of; destroy faith in.
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The act of discrediting.
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Lack of credit; impaired reputation; dishonor.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Not to credit or believe; to deprive of credit, or bring into discredit or disrepute; to deprive of credibility.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Disgrace; reproach; dishonour; want of good reputation or credit.
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Not to believe or credit; to esteem of no importance; to disgrace.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
