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discredit (verb), discredits; discredited; discrediting
1. Loss or want of credit; impaired reputation; disrepute, reproach; an instance of this.
2. Loss or want of belief or confidence; disbelief, distrust.
3. To show to be unworthy of belief; to take away the credibility of; to destroy confidence in.
4. To injure the credit or reputation of; to bring into discredit, disrepute, or loss of esteem; to disparage, degrade, defame, and slander.
This entry is located in the following units: cred-, credit-, creed- (page 3) dis-, di-, dif- (page 12)
discredited (adjective), more discredited, most discredited
Brought into discredit or disrepute; that which has lost credit.

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.

—Felix Cohen
This entry is located in the following units: cred-, credit-, creed- (page 3) dis-, di-, dif- (page 12)