Usually means: Damages someone's reputation through falsehoods.
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  1. defames: Merriam-Webster
  2. defames: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. defames: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. defames: Wiktionary
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  8. defames: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Defames: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  1. defames: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. defames: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (defame)

verb:  To disgrace; to bring into disrepute.
verb:  (now chiefly historical) To charge; to accuse (someone) of an offence.
verb:  To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage.
noun:  (now rare, archaic) Disgrace, dishonour.
noun:  (now rare or nonstandard) Defamation; slander, libel.
adjective:  (heraldry) Synonym of defamed
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