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6 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
originFrom Middle English defamen, from Anglo-Norman defamer (verb), defame (noun), and its source, Latin diffāmō, from fāma (“fame; rumour; reputation”).
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