defame (verb)

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• defame — ► VERB ▪ damage the good reputation of. DERIVATIVES defamation noun defamatory adjective. ORIGIN Latin diffamare spread evil report , from fama report …   English terms dictionary

• defame — defamation def‧a‧ma‧tion [ˌdefəˈmeɪʆn] noun [uncountable] LAW the act of writing or saying bad or untrue things about someone, so that people will have a bad opinion of them: • He sued the newspaper for defamation of character. defame verb… …   Financial and business terms

• defame — de·fame /di fām/ vt de·famed, de·fam·ing [Medieval Latin defamare, alteration of Latin diffamare to spread news of, defame, from dis , prefix marking dispersal or removal + fama reputation]: to make the subject of defamation de·fam·er n Merriam… …   Law dictionary

• defame — verb a) to try to diminish the reputation of. b) to publish a libel about. See Also: defamatory, defamation …   Wiktionary

• defame — verb damage the good reputation of. Derivatives defamation noun defamatory adjective defamer noun Origin ME: from OFr. diffamer, from L. diffamare spread evil report , from dis (expressing removal) + fama report …   English new terms dictionary

• defame — verb (T) formal to write or say something that makes people have an unfairly bad opinion of someone or something defamatory adjective …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• defame — verb she has defamed my character Syn: libel, slander, malign, cast aspersions on, smear, traduce, give someone a bad name, run down, speak ill of, vilify, besmirch, stigmatize, disparage, denigrate, discredit, decry; informal do a hatchet job on …   Thesaurus of popular words

• defame — UK [dɪˈfeɪm] / US verb [transitive] Word forms defame : present tense I/you/we/they defame he/she/it defames present participle defaming past tense defamed past participle defamed formal to say or write something bad about someone that is not… …   English dictionary

• defame — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. traduce, vilify, revile, calumniate, asperse, abuse, malign, slander. See disrepute, detraction. Ant., praise, extol. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. traduce, besmirch, malign; see slander . III (Roget s 3 …   English dictionary for students

• defame — [14] The main source of defame (originally, in Middle English, diffame) is Old French diffamer, which came from Latin diffāmāre ‘spread damaging rumours about’, a compound verb formed from the prefix dis , denoting ‘ruination’, and fāma ‘report,… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• defame — [14] The main source of defame (originally, in Middle English, diffame) is Old French diffamer, which came from Latin diffāmāre ‘spread damaging rumours about’, a compound verb formed from the prefix dis , denoting ‘ruination’, and fāma ‘report,… …   Word origins