Thesaurus: detract

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1. v. t. To take away; to withdraw.
2. v. t. To take credit or reputation from; to defame.
3. v. i. To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from.
4. v. take away a part from; diminish
5. 1. To take away; to withdraw. Detract much from the view of the without. Sir H. Wotton. 2. To take credit or reputation from; to defame. That calumnious critic . . . Detracting what laboriously we do. Drayton. Syn. -- To derogate; decry; disparage; depreciate; asperse; vilify; defame; traduce. See Decry. To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from. It has been the fashion to detract both from the moral and literary character of Cicero. V. Knox.
6. To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit;to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from.It has been the fashion to detract both from the moral and literarycharacter of Cicero. V. Knox.
7. v:100 v take away a part from; diminish