Defame

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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]

1: Δυσ- (Strong'S #1418 — Particle — dusphemeo — doos )

lit., "to speak injuriously" (from dus, an inseparable prefix signifying "opposition, injury, etc., and phemi, "to speak"), is translated "defamed,"  1—Corinthians 4:13 . Some mss. have blasphemeo. See Blaspheme.

Webster's Dictionary [2]

(1): ( v. t.) 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.

(2): ( v. t.) To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.

(3): ( v. t.) To charge; to accuse.

(4): ( n.) Dishonor.

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