The Collaborative International Dictionary
Defame \De*fame"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Defamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Defaming.] [OE. defamen, diffamen, from F. diffamer, or OF. perh. defamer, fr. L. diffamare (cf. defamatus infamous); dis- (in this word confused with de) + fama a report. See Fame.]
To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.
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To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.
My guilt thy growing virtues did defame; My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name.
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To charge; to accuse. [R.]
Rebecca is . . . defamed of sorcery practiced on the person of a noble knight.
--Sir W. Scott.Syn: To asperse; slander; calumniate; vilify. See Asperse.
Wiktionary
n. defamation vb. (present participle of defame English)
Usage examples of "defaming".
I've certainly got no intention of changing it yes and that's another thing, the way they're advertising this based on a true story with this cheap vulgar movie defaming my grandfather what about that.
At their head was a bulky figure in freshly re-gilded armor, wielding a bloody mace and defaming the sexual habits of all Beshtans, their parents, and their illegitimate offspring by an astonishing variety of mothers—not all of them human or even earthly.
Where the resentment which true love would have dictated against the person defaming me--that person, too, a chit, a child, without talent or education, whom he had been always taught to despise?
I can sink that whole publishing house for defaming me, trying to pass me off as one of those waterhead South Sea mongrels.
Let's make this in the early days of theComet , when it was still circling Charlemagne, just so Gold's descendants don't try to sue us for defaming him.