defame

verb

1. To disgrace; to bring into disrepute.

   “My guilt thy growing virtues did defame; / My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name.”

2. (historical)To charge; to accuse (someone) of an offence.

   “Rebecca is […] defamed of sorcery practised on the person of a noble knight.”

3. To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage.

   “to defame somebody”

noun

1. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Disgrace, dishonour.

   “And all the sparks that may bring unto flame / Hate betwixt man and wife, or breed defame.”

2. (archaic, countable, nonstandard, uncountable)Defamation; slander, libel.

adj

1. (not-comparable)Synonym of defamed.