Traduce

Quick meaning: Traduce is a verb meaning (transitive) To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.

Meaning

(transitive) To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.

More Meanings

1. (archaic, transitive) To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.
2. (archaic, transitive) To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.

Example Sentences

Someone must have traduced Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.

“The chief men of the Jews became his enemies and traduced him to the principal persons in the town, hoping to make him ashamed or afraid.”

This heauy headed reueale eaſt and weſt / Makes vs traduſt, and taxed of other nations, / They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition […]

I am earnestly desirous then, my dear Sir, that you should let the world into the traits of your genuine character, as civil broils may otherwise tend to disguise or traduce it.

Word Forms

• traduces
• traducing
• traduced

Synonyms for traduce

Depending on context, synonyms include defame, libel, slander, assassinate, asperse, backbite.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include badmouth, malign, malalign, maligne, malignify, villify.

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