discredit

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ credit.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɛdɪt

Verb

discredit (third-person singular simple present discredits, present participle discrediting, simple past and past participle discredited)

1. (transitive) To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false or unreliable.

   The candidate tried to discredit his opponent.

   The evidence would tend to discredit such a theory.

Synonyms

• demean, disgrace, dishonour, disprove, invalidate, tell against

Derived terms

• discreditor

Translations

harm reputation

• Bulgarian: дискредитирам (bg) (diskreditíram)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抹黑 (cmn) (mǒhēi), 使丟臉 (cmn), 使丢脸 (cmn) (shǐ diūliǎn), 搞臭 (cmn) (gǎochòu)

• French: discréditer (fr)
• German: in Misskredit bringen, diskreditieren (de)
• Ido: des-kredit-izar

• Japanese: 信用を落とす (ja) (しんようをおとす, shin'yō o otosu), 信用を傷つける (ja) (しんようをきずつける, shin'yō o kizutsukeru)
• Romanian: discredita (ro)
• Russian: дискредитировать (ru) (diskreditírovatʹ) impf./pf.
• Spanish: desacreditar (es), descreer (es)
• Swedish: diskreditera (sv)