Debunk vs Disparage - What's the difference?
debunk | disparage |
To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something
(obsolete) Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.
To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.
* Bishop Atterbury
* Milton
To ridicule, mock, discredit.
As verbs the difference between debunk and disparage
is that debunk is to discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something while disparage is to match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.As a noun disparage is
inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.debunk
English
Verb
(en verb)- Sailing round the world debunked the theory that the earth was flat.
- Debunking the myth of the American West.
- That bullshit has already been debunked .
- A myth that has long been debunked .
- The explosion story was thoroughly debunked on National Public Radio in November 1999.
Anagrams
* English transitive verbsdisparage
English
Noun
(-)- But, for his meane degree might not aspire / To match so high, her friends with counsell sage / Dissuaded her from such a disparage […].
Verb
(disparag)- those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious
- Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.