DETRACT

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To take away; to withdraw. Detract much from the view of the without. Sir H. Wotton.

2.
v.

To take credit or reputation from; to defame. That calumnious critic . . . Detracting what laboriously we do. Drayton.

3.
v.

To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from. It has been the fashion to detract both from the moral and literary character of Cicero. V. Knox.

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