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present tense third-person singular of discredit
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1
to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes
- attempted to discredit her political opponents by deliberately spreading false rumors
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- abashes,
- confounds,
- confuses,
- discomfits,
- disconcerts,
- discountenances,
- embarrasses,
- fazes,
- flusters,
- mortifies,
- nonpluses
- (or nonplusses),
- rattles
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2
to think not to be true or real
- I discredit the story that the old inn is haunted
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- derides,
- pooh-poohs
- (also poohs),
- scoffs (at)
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3
to prove to be false
- the pseudoscience of phrenology has been thoroughly discredited
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