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12 words match “TRADUCE”

TRADUCE v. 6 definitions
To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. [Obs.] Glanvill.
TRADUCEMENT n.
The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. [R.] Shak.
TRADUCENT a.
Slanderous. [R.] Entick.
TRADUCER n. 2 definitions
One who traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator. Bp. Hall.
BELIBEL v.
To libel or traduce; to calumniate. Fuller.
CALUMNIATE v.
ort and calumniate all godly men's doings. Strype. Syn. asperse; slander; defame; vilify; traduce; belie; bespatter; blacken; libel. See Asperse.
MALIGN v.
To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse. To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling. South.
RUN v.
ear. "religion is run down by the license of these times." Berkeley. (d) To disparage; to traduce. F. W. Newman. -- To run hard. (a) To press in competition; as, to run one hard in a race. (b) To urge or press importunately. (c) To banter severely. -- To run into the ground, to carry to an absurd extreme; to overdo.…
SCANDAL v.
To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander. [R.] I do faws on men and hug them hard And after scandal them. Shak.
SLUR v.
To disparage; to traduce. Tennyson.
TRADUCIBLE a.
Capable of being traduced or calumniated. [R.]
VILIFY v.
To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate. I. Taylor. Many passions dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind. Addison.