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v. To cause humiliation or disgrace to by making malicious and false statements. See Synonyms at malign.

v. To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.

v. To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.

v. To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.

v. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down.

v. To translate from one language to another.

v. To increase or distribute by propagation.

v. To draw away; to seduce.

v. To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of.

v. To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.

To pass along; transmit.

To transfer; translate; arrange under another form.

To hold up; exhibit; expose; represent.

To misrepresent; hold up or expose to ridicule or calumny; defame; calumniate; vilify.

To draw aside from duty; lead astray; sednce.

Synonyms Defame, Calumniate, etc. See asperse.

v. speak unfavorably about

"It fuels the putrid political climate we live in and the non-stop attempts since presidential election night 2008 to traduce and destroy the Obama presidency."

traduced    traduces    traducing   

asperse    smear    smirch    sully    denigrate    calumniate    defame    slander    besmirch   

vilify    detract    depreciate    disparage    decry    calumniate    slander    defame    seduce    represent