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VILIPEND

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Belittle

Example:

The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts

Synonyms:

deprecate; depreciate; vilipend

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "vilipend" is one way to...):

belittle; disparage; pick at (express a negative opinion of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "vilipend"):

deflate; puncture (reduce or lessen the size or importance of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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