Detract

Definition: Detract

Detract

Verb

1. Take away a part from; diminish; "His bad manners detract from his good character".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "detract" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1592. (references)

Note: Detract \De*tract"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Detracted; Detracting.]. (references)

Synonym: Detract

Detraction

Verb: detract, derogate, decry, deprecate, depreciate, disparage; run down, cry down; backcap; belittle; sneer at; (contemn); criticize, pull to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat, asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon, bespatter, blacken, vilify, vilipend; avile; give a dog a bad name, brand, malign; muckrake; backbite, libel, lampoon, traduce, slander, defame, calumniate, bear false witness against; speak ill of behind one's back.

Disapprobation

Scoff at, point at; twit, taunt; (disrespect); sneer at; (despise); satirize, lampoon; defame; (detract); depreciate, find fault with, criticize, cut up; pull to pieces, pick to pieces; take exception; cavil; peck at, nibble at, carp at; be censorious; Adjective: pick holes, pick a hole, pick a hole in one's coat; make a fuss about.

Nonaddition Subtraction

Verb: subduct, subtract; deduct, deduce; bate, retrench; remove, withdraw, take from, take away; detract.

Underestimation

Verb: underrate, underestimate, undervalue, underreckon; depreciate; disparage; (detract); not do justice to; misprize, disprize; ridicule; slight; (despise); neglect; slur over.

Crosswords: Detract

The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. (The Gettysburg Address)

Does taking away Waterloo from Wellington and from Blucher detract anything from England and Germany

Health

The emphasis of this conference on the prevention and treatment of complications should not detract from the basic goal of prevention and early detection of cancer. (references)

Does needle exchange promote drug use? A preponderance of evidence shows either no change or decreased drug use. The scattered cases showing increased drug use should be investigated to discover the conditions under which negative effects might occur, but these can in no way detract from the importance of needle exchange programs. (references)

Business

The fact that rates will have to rise in order to attract investors and will continue to rise for at least sometime after a competitive market develops is going to detract from the government’s efforts to garner public support for the restructuring movement. (references)

Political Economy

Australia

There are no major political issues that detract from the business climate or the stability of the bilateral trading relationship with the United States. (references)

Expressions using "detract": detract from ♦ detract from smb.'s achievements ♦ detract from smth. ♦ malign detract. Additional references.

Albanian

i pakësoj vlerën, i marr (denude, divest, reave, reive), i heq (deprive, disappoint, displume, dispossess, divest, reave, reive). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقص (allow, cut, cut down, decrease, deficiency, depress, deprivation, diminish, diminution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, famish, flaw, gap, imperfection, incompetence, insufficiency, knock off, lack, lessen, limit, lower, paucity, rareness, reduce, reduction, retrench, revocation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, thin), ‏سلب جزء من, ‏إغتاب (back bite, slag, slander, tattle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отклонявам (abduct, avert, bend, call off, deflect, deviate, disincline, divagate, divert, fence off, head off, put off, shunt, siphon off, stave off, swerve, throw down, throw off, turn aside, turn off, wave away), отнемам (denude, deprive, divest, evict, overreach, revoke, take, take away), накърнявам (derogate, impair, offend), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), злословя (slander, traduce, vituperate). (various references)

Chinese 

减去 (Detracted, Detracting, minus, subtract, subtracted, Subtracting). (various references)

Czech

zlehèovat (make light of, palliate, vilify). (various references)

Dutch

afbreuk doen aan (be detrimental to, detract from, do harm to). (various references)

Esperanto

malservi (be detrimental to, detract from, do harm to). (various references)

Farsi 

کم کردن (Alleviate, Bate, Cut, Deduce, Deduct, Drawoff, Extenuate, Rebate, Reduce, Relax, Retrench, Shade, Soften, Subtract, Thin, Weaken), کسرکردن (Deduct, Mute), کاهیدن , کاستن (Abate, Decline, Decrease, Discount, Drawoff, Lessen, Lighten, Pare, Rebate, Shorten, Soften, Subtract), گرفتن (Capture, Catch, Cease, Circle, Devest, Educe, Engage, Front, Grab, Gripe, Hold, Kindle, Nail, Obtain, Obturate, Pickup, Snatch, Take, Wed). (various references)

Finnish

vähentää (curtail, cut, decrease, deduct, detract from, diminish, lessen, reduce, subtract, take from, take off). (various references)

French

diminuer (decline, decrease), dénigrer (decry, denigrate, depreciate). (various references)

German

entziehen (take away, withdraw), abziehen (subtract, deduct, print, strop, to deduct). (various references)

Greek 

μειώνω (abate, deplete, lessen), αφαιρώ (abstract, remove, subtract). (various references)

Hebrew 

להקטין (abate, decrease, diminish, lessen, reduce, scale down), לגרוע (derogate, diminish, lessen, reduce, shear, subtract). (various references)

Hungarian

levon (to deduct, to recoup, to subtract), elvesz (to expropriate, to nick, to take from). (various references)

Indonesian

mengurangi (abridge, attenuate, curtail, deaden, deduct, diminish, relieve, substract). (various references)

Italian

sottrarre (abstract, appropriate, deduct, deprive, evade, get out, purloin, rescue, shirk, steal, subtract). (various references)

Manx

leodaghey (decrease, degrade, depreciate, diminish, dislike, disparage, disparagement, disrespect, drop, dull; reduction, impair, impairment, mitigate, mitigation, offset, reduce, remission, subtract, undervalue). (various references)

Pig Latin

etractday.(various references)

Portuguese

diminuir (reduce), difamar (asperse, belie, blacken, blemish, defame, libel, malign, reproach, scandalize, slander, smirch, speak evil of, stain, traduce, vilify), detrair, depreciar (belittle, debase, depreciate, derogate, deteriorate, devaluate, diminish, lessen, misprise, misprize, undervalue). (various references)

Romanian

reduce (abate, abridge, ax, axe, bear down, bring, cancel out, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, derogate, diminish, discount, draw in, drop, extenuate, fine down, knock down, knock off, lessen, lower, make good, narrow down, pare down, prune, recover, reduce, retrench, slacken, stint, stop, unbend, weaken), micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, Bate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, decrease, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away). (various references)

Russian 

умалять (derogate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

umanjiti (attenuate, cut back, decrease, diminish, extenuate, make a hole in, minify, minimize, reduce, turn down), oduzeti (deduct, deprive, palsy, subduct, subtract, take away, take up, tarnish). (various references)

Spanish

disminuir (abate, decrease, diminish, drop, fall, reduce), detraer, desvirtuar (detract from, pervert, skew, spoil), privar (deprive). (various references)

Swedish

dra ifrån (draw away, draw back, gain on, gain up, gain upon, take away), förringa (belittle, extenuate), avleda (carry off, divert). (various references)

Turkish

değerini düşürmek (alloy, attenuate, bemean, cheap, cheapen, damage, debase, depreciate, devaluate, devalue), küçük düşürmek (abase, affront, bring into contempt, debase, degrade, depreciate, disparage, give affront to, give smb. the wall, humiliate, lessen, lower, make smb. feel small, run down, score smb. off, snub, stigmatize, stultify, take smb. down a peg), eksiltmek (decrease, derogate, diminish, reduce, underbid), azaltmak (abate, alleviate, appease, attenuate, ax, axe, Bate, cut back, cut down on, deaden, decrease, depress, derogate, diminish, dock, fade in, impair, lessen, make a dent in, minimize, mitigate, put down, reduce, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slim down, step back, step down, taper off), alçaltmak (bastardize, belittle, bemean, debase, downgrade, drag down, lift down, lower, reduce, set down, sink). (various references)

Ukrainian

зменшувати (abate, allay, alleviate, ax, axe, belittle, cut back, decrease, diminish, dwindle, extenuate, lessen, minify, palliate, relax, slacken, turn down, whittle away), принижувати (belittle, невимушенІсть [f], deject, demean, derogate, humble, humiliate, lower, mortify, slur, snub, spite, vilify), примуншувати. (various references)

delibor, detracta, detractaque, detractos, detraham, detrahas, detrahat, detrahe, detrahebant, detrahent, detrahentem, detrahentes, detrahentia, detrahentur, detrahere, detraherent, detraheret, detraheris, detrahes, detrahet, detrahetur, detrahit, detrahunt, detraxerint, detraxero, detraxerunt, detraxeruntque, detraxi, detraxisti, detraxistis, detraxit. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "detract": detracted, detracting, detraction, detractions, detractive, detractively, detractor, detractors, detracts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Detract" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Darracq, Decrucq, defract, Derricott, destract, detack, detact, ditra, tetract. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: carted, catted, crated, ratted, redact, tarted, tetrad, traced.

-2 letters: acred, acted, arced, cadet, cadre, cared, caret, carte, cater, cedar, crate, dater, derat, raced, rated, react, recta, tacet, tared, tater, tecta, tetra, trace, tract, trade, tread, treat.

-3 letters: aced, acre, cade, card, care, cart, cate, dace, dare, dart, date, dear, drat, race, rate, read.

+1 letter: citrated, detracts, tetracid, tetradic.

+2 letters: astricted, attracted, bratticed, castrated, chattered, clattered, corotated, detracted, detractor, doctorate, eructated, extracted, ratcheted, reductant, retracted, scattered, tetracids, trajected, truncated, urticated.

+3 letters: abstracted, abstricted, altercated, contracted, contrasted, crepitated, detracting, detraction, detractive, detractors, distracted, doctorates, extricated, interacted, micturated, protracted, reattached, reattacked, reductants, reluctated, retroacted, rusticated, subtracted, tetrachord, tracheated, tradecraft, transacted, transected, wildcatter.