Usually means: Making false statements that defame.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word libeling:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. libeling: Merriam-Webster
  2. libeling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. libeling: Collins English Dictionary
  4. libeling: Vocabulary.com
  5. libeling: Wordnik
  6. libeling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. libeling: Wiktionary
  8. Libeling, libeling: Dictionary.com
  9. libeling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Libeling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Libeling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. libeling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. libeling: FreeDictionary.org
  14. libeling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. libeling: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. libeling: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. libeling: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. libeling: Medical dictionary

(Note: See libel as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.
noun:  (uncountable) The act or tort of displaying such a statement publicly.
noun:  (countable) Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.
noun:  (law, countable) A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of their cause of action, and of the relief they seek.
noun:  (countable) A brief writing of any kind, especially a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.
verb:  To defame (someone), especially in a manner that meets the legal definition of libel.
verb:  To proceed against (goods, a ship, etc.) by filing a legal claim.
▸ Also see libel


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