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单词 discredit
释义
discredit
verb[T]
formal
uk
/dɪˈskred.ɪt/us
/dɪˈskred.ɪt/
tocausepeopletostoprespectingsomeone orbelievingin anideaorperson:
使名誉受损；使受到怀疑
Evidence oflinkswithdrugdealershas discredited themayor.市长与贩毒分子有瓜葛的证据使他名誉扫地。
discreditedtheories受到怀疑的理论
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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
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discreditable
discreditably
discredit
noun[U]
formal
uk
/dɪˈskred.ɪt/us
/dɪˈskred.ɪt/
lossofrespectfor orbeliefin someone or something:
丧失名誉，失去信誉
Thestupidbehaviourof onestudenthasbroughtdiscreditonthewholeschool.一名学生的愚蠢行为让整个学校蒙羞。
Toher discredit, she neveradmittedherrolein thescandal.她一直不承认自己参与了这桩丑闻，这使她在人们心中的形象大打折扣。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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
See more results »
(Definition ofdiscreditfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

discredit| American Dictionary

discredit
verb[T]
us
/dɪsˈkred·ɪt/
to givepeoplereasontostopbelievingsomeone or todoubtthetruthof something:
TheoldSovieteconomicmodelhas beenthoroughlydiscredited.
It’s thejobof thedefenseto discreditprosecutionwitnesses.

discredit

noun[U]us
/dɪsˈkred·ɪt/
fml
He’sbroughtdiscredit on himself.
(Definition ofdiscreditfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdiscredit

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He discredited the then new theory that human beings had descended from apes because the proofs presented were purely anatomical.
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Elster clearly believes that he has discredited the loose interpretation.
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My view is that neither database should be completely discredited.
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We interpret this to mean that authoritarian regimes have been widely discredited across the continent.
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All of these efforts would be attempts to convert the discrediting situation into a less discreditable or completely creditable one.
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Although the record is mixed, events since 2002 have not really discredited these hopeful assessments.
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Churches were discredited and their role as agents of development has been curtailed.
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The scientific status of economics depended on the possibility of implementing free trade and laissez-faire in "real" countries and on discrediting socialist utopias.
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In this way opponents are automatically presented as conservatives; disposing of the old and discrediting opponents go hand in hand.
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Perhaps what discredited the system more was the implementation of market reforms for which there was no electoral mandate and which aggravated social tensions.
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In each case he points out evidence that convincingly discredits the causal link posited by the conventional account.
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In the textile industry's centenary volume, an anonymous writer declared triumphantly in 1951 that 'crude and corrupt methods have now thoroughly been discredited'.
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By controlled experimentation, as we shall see, such an interpretation has been discredited, and now preference reversals are generally accepted as real.
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Lessons from social psychology on discrediting psychiatric stigma.
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Two features of colonial-era historiography, both discredited, make an unwanted appearance.
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