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defame🔊

To disgrace; to bring into disrepute.

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My guilt thy growing virtues did defame; / My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name.

(now chiefly historical) To charge; to accuse (someone) of an offense.

To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage.

(now rare, archaic) Disgrace, dishonor.

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And all the sparks that may bring unto flame / Hate betwixt man and wife, or breed defame.

(now rare or nonstandard) Defamation; slander, libel.

(heraldry) Shown rampant without its tail.

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