different between detour vs detract

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French détour, from détourner (“turn away”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di?.t??(?)/, /?di?.t??(?)/

Noun

detour (plural detours)

1. A diversion or deviation from one's original route.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX

     On the third day I made a detour westward to avoid the country of the Band-lu, as I did not care to be detained by a meeting with To-jo.

See also

• bypass
• roundabout

Translations

Verb

detour (third-person singular simple present detours, present participle detouring, simple past and past participle detoured)

1. (intransitive) To make a detour.
2. (transitive) To direct or send on a detour.

Translations

Anagrams

• Drouet, douter, redout, routed, toured

Middle English

Noun

detour

1. Alternative form of dettour

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French détracter, from Latin detractum, past participle of detraho.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??t?ækt/
• Rhymes: -ækt

Verb

detract (third-person singular simple present detracts, present participle detracting, simple past and past participle detracted)

1. (intransitive) To take away; to withdraw or remove.
2. (transitive) To take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry.
   • 1604, Michael Drayton, Moses in a Map of his Miracles

     That calumnious critic […] / Detracting what laboriously we do.

Synonyms

• (to take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry): defame, decry
• See also Thesaurus:defame

Derived terms

• detraction
• detractor

Translations

Anagrams

• tracted