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To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame.

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  1. v. t. To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame.
  2. v. t. The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement.
  3. n. the act of speaking contemptuously of
  4. To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame. Dispraising the power of his adversaries. Chaucer. I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with him. Shak. The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement. Dryden. In praise and in dispraise the same. Tennyson.
  5. To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or somedegree of censure; to disparage; to blame.Dispraising the power of his adversaries. Chaucer.I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall inlove with him. Shak.
  6. n the act of speaking contemptuously of