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discreditedverbpast tense of discredit to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyesattempted to discredit her political opponents by deliberately spreading false rumors abased, chastened, cheapened, debased, degraded, demeaned, disgraced, dishonored, fouled, humbled, humiliated, lowered, sank(or sunk), shamed, smirched, took down abashed, confounded, confused, discomfited, disconcerted, discountenanced, embarrassed, fazed, flustered, mortified, nonplussed(also nonplused), rattledbelittled, castigated, cried down, criticized, decried, depreciated, detracted, diminished, discounted, disparaged, minimized, put down, ridiculed, wrote offbad-mouthed, defamed, defiled, libeled(or libelled), maligned, slanderedaffronted, insultedcensured, condemned, damned, denounced, execrated, reprehended, reprobated aggrandized, canonized, deified, elevated, exalted acclaimed, applauded, boasted, celebrated, cheered, cited, commended, complimented, congratulated, decorated, eulogized, extolled, feted(or fêted), hailed, honored, lauded, praised, saluted, toutedacknowledged, recognizedhighlighted, played up, spotlighted(or spotlit)dignified, ennobled, enshrined, enskied, enthroned, glorified, magnifiedadvanced, boosted, lifted, promoted, raised, upgraded, upliftedidealized, romanticized to think not to be true or realI discredit the story that the old inn is haunted disbelieved, negated denied, rejected, repudiateddistrusted, doubted, mistrusted, suspecteddebunked, disproved, refutedderided, pooh-poohed(also poohed), scoffed (at) accepted, believed, credited, swallowed trusted to prove to be falsethe pseudoscience of phrenology has been thoroughly discredited belied, confounded, confuted, debunked, disconfirmed, disproved, falsified, rebutted, refuted, shot down overthrew, overturnedchallenged, contested, queried, questioneddoubted, mistrusteddebated, discussed, hashed (over), mooted, talked over gave the lie to confirmed, established, proved, validated, verified documented, evidenced, evinced, recorded, showed, supported, witnessedbacked (up), buttressed, corroborated, substantiatedadduced, attested, authenticated, certified, identifieddemonstrated, displayed, illustrated, manifested |