3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Denigrate \Den"i*grate\, v. t. [L. denigrare; de- + nigrare to blacken, niger black.] 1. To blacken thoroughly; to make very black. --Boyle. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame. [R.] [1913 Webster] To denigrate the memory of Voltaire. --Morley. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: denigrate v 1: belittle; "Don't belittle his influence" [syn: {minimize}, {belittle}, {derogate}] 2: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation" [syn: {defame}, {slander}, {smirch}, {asperse}, {calumniate}, {smear}, {sully}, {besmirch}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 58 Moby Thesaurus words for "denigrate": asperse, bedarken, besmirch, bespatter, black, blacken, blackwash, blot, blotch, call names, calumniate, charcoal, cork, darken, defame, defile, deprecate, depreciate, despise, dinge, discommend, disdain, disparage, dispraise, disvalue, ebonize, engage in personalities, heap dirt upon, hold in contempt, ink, libel, melanize, muckrake, murk, nigrify, oversmoke, put down, revile, ridicule, scandalize, shade, shadow, slander, smear, smirch, smoke, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soot, stigmatize, sully, tarnish, tear down, throw mud at, traduce, vilify
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