different between slander vs detract
slander
English
Alternative forms
- slandre (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English slaundre, sclaundre, from Old French esclandre, from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“stumbling block, temptation”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (skándalon, “scandal”). Doublet of scandal.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sl??nd?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?slænd?/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /sl??nd?/
Noun
slander (countable and uncountable, plural slanders)
- A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:slander
Antonyms
- glorification (falsely praising statement)
Translations
Verb
slander (third-person singular simple present slanders, present participle slandering, simple past and past participle slandered)
- To utter a slanderous statement about; baselessly speak ill of.
Synonyms
- defame
- libel (always in writing)
- See also Thesaurus:defame
Antonyms
- glorify (baselessly speak well of)
Translations
See also
- defamation
Anagrams
- Landers, Lenards, Nadlers, Randles, Sandler, darnels, enlards, landers, relands, slandre, snarled
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detract
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)
- (intransitive) To take away; to withdraw or remove.
- (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.
- 1604, Michael Drayton, Moses in a Map of his Miracles
Synonyms
- (to take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry): defame, decry
- See also Thesaurus:defame
Derived terms
- detraction
- detractor
Translations
Anagrams
- tracted
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