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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /dɪˈfeɪm/
• 韻: -eɪm

動詞

defame (third-person singular simple present defames, present participle defaming, simple past and past participle defamed)

1. To disgrace; to bring into disrepute. [from 4th c.]

   Synonyms: discredit, dishonour, humiliate; see also Thesaurus:demean

   • 1697, Virgil, “The Tenth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

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

2. (now chiefly historical) To charge; to accuse (someone) of an offence. [from 14th c.]

   Synonyms: denounce, finger, inculpate; see also Thesaurus:blame

   Rebecca is […] defamed of sorcery practised on the person of a noble knight.

3. To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage. [from 4th c.]

   Synonyms: besmirch, libel, slander; see also Thesaurus:defame

   to defame somebody

派生語

関連する語

• defamatory
• defamation

名詞

defame (countable and uncountable, plural defames)

1. (now rare, archaic) Disgrace, dishonour. [from 14th c.]
   • 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, I.1:

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

2. (now rare or nonstandard) Defamation; slander, libel. [from 15th c.]

形容詞

defame (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Synonym of defamed.

Further reading

• “defame”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “defame”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.