Synonyms of the word

denigrate

• v. (transitive) To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
• v. (transitive) To treat as worthless; belittle, degrade or disparage.
• v. (rare) To blacken.

accuse

• v. (transitive) To find fault with, to blame, to censure.
• v. (transitive) To charge with having committed a crime or offence.
• v. (intransitive) To make an accusation against someone.
• n. (obsolete) An accusation.

asperse

• v. To sprinkle or scatter (liquid or dust).
• v. To falsely or maliciously charge another.

belittle

• v. To knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is.

besmirch

• v. (transitive, literary) To make dirty; to soil.
• v. (transitive) To tarnish something, especially someone's reputation; to debase.

calumniate

• v. (transitive) To make hurtful untrue comments about.
• v. (transitive) To levy a false charge against, especially of a vague offense, with the intent to damage…

charge

• n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
• n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• n. A load or burden; cargo.
• n. The amount of money levied for a service.
• n. An instruction.
• n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• n. An accusation.
• n. An electric charge.
• n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
• n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• n. A forceful forward movement.
• n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
• n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
• v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
• v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• v. To impute or ascribe.
• v. To call to account; to challenge.
• v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
• v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
• v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

defame

• v. To disgrace; to bring into disrepute.
• v. (now chiefly historical) To charge; to accuse (someone) of an offence.
• v. To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage.
• n. (now rare, archaic) Disgrace, dishonour.
• n. (now rare or nonstandard) Defamation; slander, libel.

derogate

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To partially repeal (a law etc.).
• v. (transitive) To detract from (something); to disparage, belittle.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To take away (something from something else) in a way which leaves it lessened.
• v. (intransitive) To remove a part, to detract from (a quality of excellence, authority etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner below oneself; to debase oneself.
• adj. (archaic) debased.

disparage

• n. (obsolete) Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
• v. To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.
• v. To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words;…
• v. To ridicule, mock, discredit.

minimize

• v. (transitive) To make (something) as small or as insignificant as possible.
• v. (computing, transitive, graphical user interface) To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing…

slander

• n. A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to…
• v. To utter a slanderous statement; baselessly speak ill of.

smear

• v. (transitive) To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
• v. (transitive) To have a substance smeared on (a surface).
• v. (transitive) To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false…
• v. (intransitive) To become spread by smearing.
• v. (climbing) To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
• n. A mark made by smearing.
• n. (medicine) A Pap smear.
• n. A false attack.
• n. (climbing) A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe…
• n. (music) A rough glissando in jazz music.

smirch

• n. Dirt, or a stain.
• n. (of a reputation) Stain.
• v. To dirty; to make dirty.

sully

• v. (transitive) to soil or stain; to dirty.
• v. (transitive) to damage or corrupt.
• v. (intransitive) To become soiled or tarnished.