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say it: DEN-uh-grayt
denigrate is a verb meaning "cause to seem less serious; play down". It carries 2 recorded senses.
charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
“The journalists have defamed me!”
“The article in the paper sullied my reputation”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for denigrate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.