Usually means: Reduce or diminish value, quality.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. detract: Merriam-Webster
  2. detract: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. detract: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. detract: Collins English Dictionary
  5. detract: Vocabulary.com
  6. detract: Wordnik
  7. detract: Wiktionary
  8. detract: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. detract: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. detract: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Detract, detract: Dictionary.com
  12. detract: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Detract: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. detract: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. detract: Rhymezone
  16. detract: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. detract: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. detract: FreeDictionary.org
  19. detract: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. detract: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. detract: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detract: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. detract: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (detract)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To take away; to withdraw or remove.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To take credit or reputation from; to derogate; to defame or decry.

Similar:
take away, derogate, abstract, diminish, withdraw, deduct, draw away, detach, retire, deny, more...

Opposite:
enhance, improve, add to, augment

Types:
mar, blemish, defect, flaw, fault, imperfection, more...

Phrases:
detract from, more...

Adjectives:
least, wise, much, slightest, latter, smallest, present, vital, personal, poor, fat

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     dull brown,     olive drab,     mustard yellow, more...



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Similar:
take away, derogate, abstract, diminish, withdraw, deduct, draw away, detach, retire, deny, more...

Opposite:
enhance, improve, add to, augment

Types:
mar, blemish, defect, flaw, fault, imperfection, more...

Phrases:
detract from, more...

Adjectives:
least, wise, much, slightest, latter, smallest, present, vital, personal, poor, fat

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     dull brown,     olive drab,     mustard yellow, more...



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