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Asperse vs Detract - What's the difference?

asperse | detract | Synonyms |

Asperse is a synonym of detract.


As verbs the difference between asperse and detract

is that asperse is to sprinkle or scatter (liquid or dust) while detract is to take away; to withdraw or remove.

asperse

English

Verb

(aspers)
  • To sprinkle or scatter (liquid or dust).
  • To falsely or maliciously charge another.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Quotations

    * 2004': a hand in San Marco's font / '''aspersed him with foul canal water — Derek Walcott, ''The Prodigal, (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2004) page 102

    Anagrams

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    detract

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take away; to withdraw or remove.
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  • To take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry.
  • * Drayton
    • That calumnious critic / Detracting what laboriously we do.

    Synonyms

    * defame, decry * See also

    Derived terms

    * detraction * detractor