n
One who, or that which, abases.
v
(transitive) To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.
v
(transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert
n
(idiomatic, historical, law) a wrongful using of an animal or chattel distrained, by the distrainer
n
Synonym of agitator (“one who stirs up or excites others, for example political reformers”)
v
(obsolete, transitive) To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.
v
(transitive) To libel or traduce; to calumniate.
v
(transitive) To knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is, especially as a way of showing contempt or deprecation.
v
To make mean or base, demean.
v
(obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
v
To persuade completely and forcibly.
v
(transitive) To make hurtful untrue comments about.
v
(transitive, formal) To execrate or condemn something in a harsh manner, especially by public criticism.
v
(transitive, rare, possibly nonstandard) To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing toward (someone); to talk down to (someone).
v
(obsolete, transitive) To make sorrowful; to sadden or grieve.
v
To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
v
(law) To cause injuries or loss to.
n
(figuratively) A discouraging event or remark.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To gild.
v
(transitive) To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
v
(transitive) To debase (something); to lower the value of (something).
v
(obsolete, transitive) To bring to shame; to disgrace.
n
One who defaces; a vandal.
v
To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage.
v
Obsolete spelling of defy [(transitive) To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition).]
v
(nonstandard) To cause, or to undergo degradation
n
The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society
n
Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.
v
(obsolete, rare, transitive) To disparage.
n
(archaic) Advice against something; dissuasion.
v
(intransitive) To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To frustrate or disappoint.
v
To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
v
(transitive, archaic) To depreciate or cry down.
v
(transitive) To treat as worthless; belittle, degrade or disparage.
v
(transitive) To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile
v
(transitive) To belittle or express disapproval of.
v
(transitive) To belittle or disparage.
v
(transitive) To detract from (something); to disparage, belittle.
n
One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste.
v
(transitive) To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage.
v
(transitive) To take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry.
v
(transitive, chiefly obsolete) To be detrimental to; to harm or mar.
v
(transitive) To reduce in value.
n
One who or that which devaluates.
v
(intransitive) To lose value; to depreciate.
n
One who, or that which, devalues.
adj
made to seem less important, impressive, or valuable
v
(transitive) To place at a disadvantage.
v
(transitive) To deprive (someone of something expected or hoped for).
v
(transitive) To undervalue; not to esteem.
v
(obsolete) To retard; to repel; to do damage to.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To debase or degrade.
n
(archaic) rejection; dismissal
v
(obsolete, transitive) To slander.
v
(now rare) To speak dissuasively of, to advise against.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To render unfit or unsuitable; to fail to treat well.
v
(transitive) To refuse countenance or support to; to discourage.
v
(transitive) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.
v
(transitive) To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false or unreliable.
v
(now regional or nonstandard) To discourage.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To disfigure.
v
to change the appearance of something/someone to the negative.
n
(Scotland, law, obsolete) degradation; a stripping of titles and honours
v
(obsolete) To disparage.
v
(intransitive) To cause disorder.
n
One who disillusionizes.
v
(Britain) to be unwilling to oblige; to disappoint, to inconvenience, not to cooperate.
v
(obsolete) To discipline; to subject to discipline or punishment, especially for religious purposes.
v
(transitive, archaic) To depreciate.
n
(obsolete) dispurveyance
adj
That disrupts; disruptive.
v
To disserve, to provide a disservice to; to provide harmful or inadequate service to.
v
(intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen.
n
(law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
n
One who or that which distresses.
n
One who, or that which, disunites.
v
(ethics, medicine) To perform no actions which will be injurious or in any way unfavorable to another person, regardless of whether one does anything of positive benefit for that other person.
v
(rare, transitive) To describe in dysphemisms.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To grieve.
n
One who, or that which, exacerbates or makes worse.
n
(obsolete, rare) Injury; wrong; mischief.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To dismay.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To issue as a denunciation.
v
(idiomatic) To show humility, to be humbled.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To treat with contumely; insult; humiliate; debase; lower.
v
(figuratively) To consider someone unworthy of respect.
v
(transitive, often reflexive) To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.
v
(transitive) To make humble; to lower in condition or status.
v
Alternative form of ill-treat [To treat someone or something badly or unkindly; to abuse or mistreat.]
n
One who, or that which, impairs.
v
(transitive) To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
v
(obsolete, rare) to hurt, to harm
v
(transitive) To disincline.
v
(intransitive, obsolete, rare) To leap or trample upon.
v
(obsolete) To make (someone or something) contemptible and ridiculous.
v
(transitive, India, dated, Britain military slang) To refuse or rebuff.
v
(transitive, rare) To belittle.
v
(idiomatic, usually followed by at) To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt.
v
(intransitive) To reject or bar improvement because it is incomplete.
v
(transitive) To perform one or more acts of microaggression directed at (someone).
v
(transitive) To treat someone, or something roughly or badly.
n
(computing) Corrupt characters or letters, especially from display or transfer through an inappropriate character set or encoding.
v
To give someone a very bad reputation; demonize, vilify.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
n
The act of obviating; deterrence or prevention.
v
(intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
v
(transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
v
(transitive, rare) To render pejorative.
v
(transitive) To take a pessimistic view of; to speak of in a negative or pessimistic way.
v
(archaic, transitive) To squander.
v
(transitive) To cause revulsion in.
v
Obsolete spelling of repine [(transitive) To fail; to wane.]
v
(transitive, obsolete) To be distasteful to.
v
(transitive) To debunk or discredit an idea or rumor.
v
Alternative form of sdeign [(obsolete) To disdain.]
v
(transitive) To treat with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully.
v
To appear lesser in quality once compared to another.
v
To avenge; to get back at.
v
(transitive) To remove or deprive comfort from
v
To fail to impress; to perform disappointingly.
v
To disturb the harmony of
v
(transitive) To belittle through speech; to put down.
v
(transitive, dated, formal) To express a disparaging opinion of; to slander or vilify.
v
(transitive) To debase or morally corrupt.
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