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Detract vs Detracter - What's the difference?

detract | detracter |

As a verb detract

is to take away; to withdraw or remove.

As a noun detracter is

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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

    detracter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * Sir T. North
    • Other detracters and malicious writers.
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