| 单词 | discredit |
| 释义 | discredit (once / 869 pages) nv Discredit means to cause mistrust or cast the accuracy of something into doubt. If you say that schooling is important to you, but you never study, your actions discredit you and your words. You discredit what someone says when you choose not to believe it. You can discredit the rumors going around about your boyfriend if you are sure of his love. On a more personal level, you discredit people when you cast their authority or reputation into doubt. If you're running a tough race for class president, your opponent may try to discredit you by talking about your failures or even making up lies about you. But this would be to the discredit of your opponent — his or her own reputation would suffer for this bad behavior. WORD FAMILYdiscredit: discreditable, discredited, discrediting, discredits+/credit: creditable, credited, crediting, creditor, credits, discredit/creditable: creditably/creditor: creditors/discreditable: discreditably USAGE EXAMPLESAnd while the win can’t be discredited, the fashion in which it happened failed to provide much confidence. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Europe and Japan rebuilt; the Soviet Union failed; communism was discredited. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) The electoral college is not only antiquated but also discredited. Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) 1n the state of being held in low esteem your actions will bring discredit to your name Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper disrepute reputation, repute the state of being held in high esteem and honor infamy evil fame or public reputation ill fame, notorietythe state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality dishonor, dishonour a state of shame or disgrace 2v damage the reputation of This newspaper story discredits the politicians Syn|Hyper disgrace belittle, disparage, pick at express a negative opinion of 3v reject as false; refuse to accept Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper disbelieve believe accept as true; take to be true doubt consider unlikely or have doubts about distrust, mistrust, suspectregard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in doubtlack confidence in or have doubts about reject refuse to accept or acknowledge 4v cause to be distrusted or disbelieved The paper discredited the politician with its nasty commentary Hyper brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside bar from attention or consideration |
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