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discreditingverbpresent participle 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 abasing, chastening, cheapening, debasing, degrading, demeaning, disgracing, dishonoring, fouling, humbling, humiliating, lowering, shaming, sinking, smirching, taking down abashing, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, mortifying, nonplussing(also nonplusing), rattlingbelittling, castigating, criticizing, crying down, decrying, depreciating, detracting, diminishing, discounting, disparaging, minimizing, putting down, ridiculing, writing offbad-mouthing, defaming, defiling, libeling(or libelling), maligning, slanderingaffronting, insultingcensuring, condemning, damning, denouncing, execrating, reprehending, reprobating aggrandizing, canonizing, deifying, elevating, exalting acclaiming, applauding, boasting, celebrating, cheering, citing, commending, complimenting, congratulating, decorating, eulogizing, extolling, feting(or fêting), hailing, honoring, lauding, praising, saluting, toutingacknowledging, recognizinghighlighting, playing up, spotlightingdignifying, ennobling, enshrining, enskying, enthroning, glorifying, magnifyingadvancing, boosting, lifting, promoting, raising, upgrading, upliftingidealizing, romanticizing to think not to be true or realI discredit the story that the old inn is haunted disbelieving, negating denying, rejecting, repudiatingdistrusting, doubting, mistrusting, suspectingdebunking, disproving, refutingderiding, pooh-poohing(also poohing), scoffing (at) accepting, believing, crediting, swallowing trusting to prove to be falsethe pseudoscience of phrenology has been thoroughly discredited belying, confounding, confuting, debunking, disconfirming, disproving, falsifying, rebutting, refuting, shooting down overthrowing, overturningchallenging, contesting, querying, questioningdoubting, mistrustingdebating, discussing, hashing (over), mooting, talking over giving the lie to confirming, establishing, proving, validating, verifying documenting, evidencing, evincing, recording, showing, supporting, witnessingbacking (up), buttressing, corroborating, substantiatingadducing, attesting, authenticating, certifying, identifyingdemonstrating, displaying, illustrating, manifesting |