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TRADUCE
badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mud
(verb) speak unfavorably about; “She badmouths her husband everywhere”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
traduce (third-person singular simple present traduces, present participle traducing, simple past and past participle traduced)
(transitive) To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
(archaic, transitive) To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.
(archaic, transitive) To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.
Synonyms
• (malign or defamatory statements): defame, libel, slander
• (pass on): hand down, bequeath, leave
• (convert languages): translate
• See also defame
Anagrams
• Decatur, curated, educrat
Source: Wiktionary
Tra*duce", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Traduced; p. pr. & vb. n. Traducing.] Etym: [L. traducere, traductum, to lead across, lead along, exhibit as a spectacle, disgrace, transfer, derive; trans across, over + ducere to lead: cf. F. traduire to transfer, translate, arraign, fr. L. traducere. See Duke.]
1. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. [Obs.] Glanvill.
2. To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works. [Obs.] Golden Boke.
3. To increase or distribute by propagation. [Obs.] From these only the race of perfect animals were propagated and traduced over the earth. Sir M. Hale.
4. To draw away; to seduce. [Obs.] I can forget the weakness Of the traduced soldiers. Beau. & Fl.
5. To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of. [Obs.] Bacon.
6. To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame. The best stratagem that Satan hath . . . is by traducing the form and manner of them [prayers], to bring them into contempt. Hooker. He had the baseness . . . to traduce me in libel. Dryden.
Syn.
– To calumniate; vilify; defame; disparage; detract; depreciate; decry; slander.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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