'Detract' definitions:
Definition of 'detract'
From: WordNet
verb
Take away a part from; diminish; "His bad manners detract from his good character" [syn: take away, detract]
Definition of 'Detract'
From: GCIDE
- Detract \De*tract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Detracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Detracting.] [L. detractus, p. p. of detrahere to detract; de + trahere to draw: cf. F. d['e]tracter. See Trace.]
- 1. To take away; to withdraw. [1913 Webster]
- Detract much from the view of the without. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To take credit or reputation from; to defame. [1913 Webster]
- That calumnious critic . . . Detracting what laboriously we do. --Drayton.
- Syn: To derogate; decry; disparage; depreciate; asperse; vilify; defame; traduce. See Decry. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Detract'
From: GCIDE
- Detract \De*tract"\, v. i. To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from. [1913 Webster]
- It has been the fashion to detract both from the moral and literary character of Cicero. --V. Knox. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'detract'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abate,
- abrade,
- abstract,
- bate,
- beguile,
- call away,
- curtail,
- decrease,
- deduct,
- depreciate,
- derogate,
- detract attention,
- detract from,
- diminish,
- disparage,
- distract,
- divert,
- divert the mind,
- drain,
- eat away,
- erode,
- extract,
- file away,
- impair,
- leach,
- lessen,
- purify,
- reduce,
- refine,
- remove,
- retrench,
- rub away,
- shorten,
- subduct,
- subtract,
- take away,
- take away from,
- take from,
- thin,
- thin out,
- wear away,
- weed,
- withdraw