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"word": "praise"
},
{
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"word": "stand up for"
}
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English defamen, from Anglo-Norman defamer (verb), defame (noun), and its source, Latin diffāmō, from fāma (“fame; rumour; reputation”).",
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"word": "degrade"
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"word": "deride"
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"word": "offend"
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"word": "blot one's copy book"
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"word": "debase"
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"word": "dig up dirt"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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"word": "dish the dirt"
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"word": "gossip"
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"word": "tar and feather"
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"To disgrace; to bring into disrepute."
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[
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{
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "klevetja",
"sense": "to disgrace, bring into disrepute",
"word": "клеветя"
},
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"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to disgrace, bring into disrepute",
"word": "difamar"
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"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "to disgrace, bring into disrepute",
"word": "æruskemma"
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{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to disgrace, bring into disrepute",
"word": "herjata"
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{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to disgrace, bring into disrepute",
"word": "diffamieren"
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"roman": "sykofantó",
"sense": "to disgrace, bring into disrepute",
"word": "συκοφαντώ"
},
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"roman": "livellografó",
"sense": "to disgrace, bring into disrepute",
"word": "λιβελλογραφώ"
},
{
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to disgrace, bring into disrepute",
"word": "whakakino ingoa"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 3 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to disgrace, bring into disrepute",
"word": "difamar"
},
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"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to disgrace, bring into disrepute",
"word": "defăima"
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"roman": "klevetátʹ",
"sense": "to disgrace, bring into disrepute",
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],
"word": "клевета́ть"
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"roman": "klevetati",
"sense": "to disgrace, bring into disrepute",
"word": "клеветати"
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to disgrace, bring into disrepute",
"word": "difamar"
}
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Rebecca is […] defamed of sorcery practised on the person of a noble knight."
}
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"text": "to defame somebody"
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[
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[
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[
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pozorja",
"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "позоря"
},
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"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "хуля"
},
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"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "difamar"
},
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "pomluvit"
},
{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "panetella"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "diffamer"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "diffamieren"
},
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kakologó",
"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "κακολογώ"
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"word": "συκοφαντώ"
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"roman": "kakologéō",
"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "κακολογέω"
},
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"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
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"roman": "hishmítz",
"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "השמיץ"
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"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "aithisigh"
},
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"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "tūtara"
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"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
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"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
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"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "taiaroa"
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"code": "zdj",
"lang": "Ngazidja Comorian",
"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "ukalia"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "difamar"
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"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "defăima"
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"roman": "poróčitʹ",
"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "поро́чить"
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"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
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"word": "позо́рить"
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"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "хули́ть"
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"roman": "ponosítʹ",
"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "поноси́ть"
},
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"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "difamar"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 92",
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "arruinar la reputación"
},
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "ärekränka"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 92",
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "förtala"
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"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "baktala"
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{
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"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
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"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "diskreditera"
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{
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"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "mìn-bprà-màat",
"sense": "to harm, to diminish the reputation of",
"word": "หมิ่นประมาท"
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}
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"text": "And all the sparks that may bring unto flame / Hate betwixt man and wife, or breed defame.",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.