detract fromsomething
phrasal verbwithdetractverbuk/dɪˈtrækt/us/dɪˈtrækt/
to make somethingseemlessvaluableor lessdeservingofadmirationthan it really is :
All thatmake-upshewearsactuallydetracts from herbeauty, Ithink.
Humiliating and degrading
- abase
- abasement
- be under a cloudidiom
- bring/takesomeonedown a peg (or two)idiom
- bruisesomeone'segoidiom
- debase
- deflate
- dishonour
- dishonourable
- doghouse
- exhibition
- fall from graceidiom
- ignominiously
- ignominy
- in the doghouseidiom
- indignity
- knocksomeoneofftheirpedestalidiom
- stoop
- stoop tosomething
- undignified