| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | To think, represent, or speak of as small or unimportant: belittle, decry, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, derogate, discount, disparage, downgrade, minimize, run down, slight, talk down. Idioms: make light (or little) of. See ATTACK, SHOW. | | PHRASAL VERB: | detract from To spoil the soundness or perfection of: blemish, damage, disserve, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, injure, mar, prejudice, tarnish, vitiate. See BETTER, HELP.
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