Usually means: Damage the reputation or credibility.
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  1. discredit: Merriam-Webster
  2. discredit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. discredit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. discredit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. discredit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Discredit: Wordnik
  7. discredit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. discredit: Wiktionary
  9. discredit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. discredit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. discredit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Discredit, discredit: Dictionary.com
  13. discredit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. discredit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Discredit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Discredit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. discredit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. discredit: Rhymezone
  19. discredit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. discredit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. discredit: FreeDictionary.org
  22. discredit: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. discredit: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. discredit: Wordnik
  25. discredit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. discredit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. discredit: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To harm the good reputation of (a person).
verb:  (transitive) To cause (an idea or piece of evidence) to seem false or unreliable.
noun:  (countable or uncountable) Discrediting or disbelieving.
noun:  (countable) A person or thing that causes harm to a reputation, as of a person, family, or institution.
noun:  (uncountable) The state of being discredited or disbelieved.
noun:  (uncountable) A degree of dishonour or disesteem; ill repute; reproach.

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