transitive. To make little or more little, to diminish; to reduce in size, amount, or importance; (also) to belittle. Also with †away.

transitive. To disparage, belittle. Also: to discredit. Obsolete.

To speak of depreciatingly or contemptuously; to depreciate, despise. Obsolete.

transitive. To decry the importance or worth of; to depreciate, belittle; to discredit. Obsolete. rare.

= derogate, v.

transitive. To take away from the reputation or estimation of, to disparage, depreciate, belittle, traduce, speak evil of. Now rare.

transitive. To denounce, censure; to rebuke, criticize; = decry, v. 2.

To disparage, calumniate; = detract, v. 3.

transitive. To deprive of merit, take away the merit of; = demerit, v. 2.

To undervalue, disparage, depreciate. Obsolete.

To speak of with disparagement or contempt; to represent as contemptible or worthless; to abuse or vilify. (Common in 19th cent.)

To dispraise, disparage, decry; to speak of slightingly. Obsolete.

transitive. To pronounce incapable; (hence) to disparage, depreciate, detract from, belittle; (reflexive) to depreciate one's own competence or…

To detract from; to lessen, abate, disparage, depreciate. Obsolete.

transitive. To lighten, lessen the weight of; to depreciate, extenuate. Obsolete.

To speak of or treat slightingly; to treat as something lower than it is; to undervalue; to vilify.

To disparage, depreciate, speak evil of, blame; = detract, v. 3.

To lower in estimation; to decry, depreciate, vilify. Obsolete.

To deprive of merit, to take away the merit of, disparage. Obsolete.

To depreciate or disparage in discourse; to talk slightingly or contemptuously of. Obsolete (passing into next).

To speak of dishonouringly; to reprobate, disparage, revile, vilify, speak slightingly of. Obsolete.

intransitive with from (†of).

transitive. To disparage.

To disparage the power or value of (something). Obsolete.

transitive. To disparage or decry.

‘To diminish in honour’ (Johnson), depreciate, disparage (a person, his actions, or attributes). Obsolete.

transitive. To make or treat as of no value, depreciate, disparage.

transitive. To disparage.

To estimate or esteem too low; to value or appreciate insufficiently; to depreciate.

To speak contemptuously of; to vilify.

To vilify, damage in reputation; to depreciate, disparage. Obsolete.

To condemn, depreciate, or disparage loudly, vehemently, or publicly.

To depreciate, decry; = debase, v. 2.

To cry out against; to disparage or condemn openly; to attack the credit or reputation of; = to cry down at cry, v. phrasal verbs 1.

transitive. To reduce to an atom or atoms. Chiefly figurative: to diminish in size or importance; (also) to divide into small units, esp. for the…

transitive. To depreciate, lower. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To hold in low esteem, to despise; (also) to disparage.

transitive. To deprive of dignity or worthiness; to disparage, flout.

transitive. figurative. To debase, degrade, or pollute (something). rare.

To deprive of amplitude, belittle.

transitive. To deprive of greatness.

To disparage, depreciate, calumniate, asperse.

transitive. To cry up or down.

To lower in estimation; to represent as of less value; to underrate, undervalue, belittle.

transitive. To disparage, denigrate, vilify; to give an unfairly low assessment of.

To speak to or of in terms of contempt; to vilify, ‘run down.’ Obsolete.

transitive. To depreciate, disparage.

To speak or write of (a person or thing) with scorn, contempt, or disparagement; to deride or decry. Obsolete exc. dialect.

To lessen in importance, estimation, or power; to put down, degrade, humiliate; to detract from, disparage, belittle. archaic. (See also diminished…

transitive. To belittle, disparage. Cf. substractor, n. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. colloquial. To denigrate or disparage (a person); = to put down 3b at put, v. phrasal verbs 1. Cf. phrases 1b.

transitive. To dismiss the importance of, depreciate.

transitive. Perhaps: to denigrate, to blacken. Obsolete. rare.

†to bring,†drive to scorn, to shame, disgrace; †to do (a person) scorn, to insult; †to get the scorn (Scottish), to be treated with contumely; †to hol…

to give one a back-cap, to disclose or state something to one's detriment; to run down. Also as v. transitive (Cent. Dict., 1889).

transitive. To make (a person, group, or concept) a minority; to treat as or place in a minority; to force (an individual, minority group, etc.) to…

transitive. To disparage, criticize, or abuse (a person, esp. someone who is not present). Also intransitive.

transitive. colloquial (originally Australian and New Zealand). To disparage, criticize severely, pour scorn on.

transitive. Chiefly U.S. To disparage, belittle; to criticize. Cf. talk, v. 9a(b).

transitive. To render or treat as marginal; to remove from the centre or mainstream; to force (an individual, minority group, etc.) to the…

transitive. = marginalize, v. 3. Usually in passive.

To reduce or impair the quality of (a work of art, etc.); to expose the worthless nature of (something), to deprecate. colloquial (chiefly U.S.).

transitive. To reject or refuse to consider (an applicant, suggestion, course of action, etc.); to dismiss or criticize (a person, his or her…