Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To damage the reputation, character, or good name of by slander or libel. See Synonyms at malign.
- v. Archaic To disgrace.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To slander or calumniate, as by uttering or publishing maliciously something which tends to injure the reputation or interests of; speak evil of; dishonor by false reports.
- To charge; accuse; especially, to accuse falsely.
- To degrade; bring into disrepute; make infamous.
- Synonyms Calumniate, Slander, etc. See asperse.
- n. Infamy; disgrace.
Wiktionary
- v. to try to diminish the reputation of.
- v. to publish a libel about.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.
- v. To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.
- v. rare To charge; to accuse.
- n. obsolete Dishonor.
WordNet 3.0
- v. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
Etymologies
- Middle English defamen, from Old French defamer, from Medieval Latin dēfāmāre, alteration of Latin diffāmāre, to spread news of, slander : dis-, abroad, apart; see dis- + fāma, rumor, reputation; see bhā-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Can Ms. Moore "defame" Mrs. Palin through the medium of dance, for example?”
“Would the senator make it a crime to "defame" the flag?”
“Those restrictions included jail for journalists who "defame" the president, government or army.”
“They have gotten death threats when they act as private individuals and somehow "defame" Islam by challenging any cultural aspect of Islamic culture now being forced on the Netherlands or other Euro countries.”
“Interior minister Rehman Malik has described the kidnapping as an attempt to "defame”
“Upset over being branded as a child labour employer, India's apparel export body AEPC has sought access to key documents of the US Labour Department which were used to "defame" the”
“Why freedom of speech must include the right to "defame" religions”
“A powerful bloc of 57 Islamic states is again pushing for the UN to make it a criminal offense to criticise or 'defame' Islam.”
“First, I'm a bit confused: How exactly did Obama "defame" Christianity by claiming to be a Christian?”
“According to Shariah, it is impermissible to engage in speech or writings that 'defame' Islam or otherwise offend its followers.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘defame’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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How Dare You!
The ways and means of insult
belaud, asteism, charientism, slander, libel, disparage, asperse, denigrate, defame, dis, mycterism, execrate and 2 more...
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06-13 GRE list
churlish, unswear, abnegate, abjure, state, indemnification, adumbrated, reny, abash, recondite, rescission, esoteric and 260 more...
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Censure (v.)
Someone must have had an inferiority complex.
vituperate, vilify, trounce, traduce, slander, scold, revile, reprove, reprimand, reprehend, remonstrate, rebuke and 37 more...
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SAT vocab
abash, abate, abdicate, aberration, abhor, abject, abnegate, abortive, absolve, abstruse, accolade, accost and 175 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 1008 more...
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GRE
acrimony, verisimilitude, tenebrious, tenebrous, dishabille, unfettered, deplorable, woebegone, credulity, naïveté, mitigate, meliorate and 475 more...
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From Book - SAT & College Dictionary ...
ebb, exotic, immure, abeyance, panegyric, debonair, protege, dissipate, frantic, penitent, abject, edify and 871 more...
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elij's Words
diegesis, intrinsic, semantic, salience, nonchalant, infosthetics, ambiguous, altruism, cynical, abstruse, vatic, encomium and 137 more...
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Critischism
Divisive devices; emissary of Momus.
peevology, pessimize, philippic, philopolemic, billingsgate, charientism, criticaster, ludification, flyting, miserabilism, misprize, admonish and 145 more...
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conglomeration
wherewithal, wan, zoonotic, zoonosis, nebulous, nefarious, nascent, quiescent, quell, undercroft, unwitting, unutterable and 658 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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To Lower in Value, Worth or Estimation
Verbs meaning to lower in value, worth or estimation
vilify, degrade, disparage, deprecate, depreciate, defame, derogate, devalue
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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