detract

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: de=tract

OXFORD DICTIONARY

detract, v.tr. (usu. foll. by from) take away (a part of something); reduce, diminish (self-interest detracted nothing from their achievement).

Derivative

detraction n. detractive adj. detractor n.

Etymology

L detrahere detract- (as DE-, trahere draw)

THESAURUS

detract

abate, abrade, abstract, bate, beguile, call away, curtail, decrease, deduct, depreciate, derogate, detract attention, detract from, diminish, disparage, distract, divert, divert the mind, drain, eat away, erode, extract, file away, impair, leach, lessen, purify, reduce, refine, remove, retrench, rub away, shorten, subduct, subtract, take away, take away from, take from, thin, thin out, wear away, weed, withdraw

ROGET THESAURUS

detract

Subtraction

VB subduct, subtract, deduct, deduce, bate, retrench, remove, withdraw, take from, take away, detract, garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate, cut off, cut away, cut out, abscind, excise, pare, thin, prune, decimate, abrade, scrape, file, geld, castrate, eliminate, diminish, curtail, deprive of, weaken.

Detraction

VB detract, derogate, decry, deprecate, depreciate, disparage, run down, cry down, backcap, belittle, sneer at, criticize, pull to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat, asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon, bespatter, blacken, vilify, vilipend, avile, give a dog a bad name, brand, malign, muckrake, backbite, libel, lampoon, traduce, slander, defame, calumniate, bear false witness against, speak ill of behind one's back, fling dirt, anathematize, dip the pen in gall, view in a bad light, impugn (disparage the motives of), assail, attack, oppose, denounce, accuse.