detract

1. v. t. To take away; to withdraw. Source: opted

2. v. t. To take credit or reputation from; to defame. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

4. v. take away a part from; diminish Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

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. Source: adambom

7. v:100 v take away a part from; diminish Source: ecdict

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