traduce
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General verb
To speak maliciously and falsely of someone, damaging their reputation.
He accused the newspaper of traducing an honest public servant.
Law verb
To speak falsely or maliciously of a person so as to injure their reputation.
He sued the columnist who had traduced him as a swindler before a national readership.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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