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discreditsverbpresent tense third-person singular 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 abases, chastens, cheapens, debases, degrades, demeans, disgraces, dishonors, fouls, humbles, humiliates, lowers, shames, sinks, smirches, takes down abashes, confounds, confuses, discomfits, disconcerts, discountenances, embarrasses, fazes, flusters, mortifies, nonpluses(or nonplusses), rattlesbelittles, castigates, cries down, criticizes, decries, depreciates, detracts, diminishes, discounts, disparages, minimizes, puts down, ridicules, writes offbad-mouths, defames, defiles, libels, maligns, slandersaffronts, insultscensures, condemns, damns, denounces, execrates, reprehends, reprobates aggrandizes, canonizes, deifies, elevates, exalts acclaims, applauds, boasts, celebrates, cheers, cites, commends, compliments, congratulates, decorates, eulogizes, extols(also extolls), fetes(or fêtes), hails, honors, lauds, praises, salutes, toutsacknowledges, recognizeshighlights, plays up, spotlightsdignifies, ennobles, enshrines, enskies, enthrones, glorifies, magnifiesadvances, boosts, lifts, promotes, raises, upgrades, upliftsidealizes, romanticizes to think not to be true or realI discredit the story that the old inn is haunted disbelieves, negates denies, rejects, repudiatesdistrusts, doubts, mistrusts, suspectsdebunks, disproves, refutesderides, pooh-poohs(also poohs), scoffs (at) accepts, believes, credits, swallows trusts to prove to be falsethe pseudoscience of phrenology has been thoroughly discredited belies, confounds, confutes, debunks, disconfirms, disproves, falsifies, rebuts, refutes, shoots down overthrows, overturnschallenges, contests, queries, questionsdoubts, mistrustsdebates, discusses, hashes (over), moots, talks over gives the lie to confirms, establishes, proves, validates, verifies documents, evidences, evinces, records, shows, supports, witnessesbacks (up), buttresses, corroborates, substantiatesadduces, attests, authenticates, certifies, identifiesdemonstrates, displays, illustrates, manifests |