Meaning

3 senses
  1. (transitive)To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.

    verleumden

    клевета́тьklevetátʹ, злословитьzloslovitʹ, наговариватьnagovarivatʹ

  2. (archaic, transitive)To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.

    передава́тьperedavátʹ

  3. (archaic, transitive)To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.

More definitions
  • speak unfavorably about

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
to malign by making malicious and false or defamatory statements:
to pass on; to transmit:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to malign by making malicious and false or defamatory statements:

Origin

From Latin trādūcō (“carry over; lead as a spectacle, dishonor”), from trāns + dūcō (“to l

From Latin trādūcō (“carry over; lead as a spectacle, dishonor”), from trāns + dūcō (“to lead”). Doublet of transduce, from Latin trānsdūcō.

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Forms

traduces, traducing, traduced, traduced
Base formtraduce · to traduce
3rd person singulartraduces
Present participletraducing
Past simpletraduced
Past participletraduced

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytraduce
he, she, ittraduces

Past simpleLesson

all personstraduced

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave traduced
he, she, ithas traduced

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill traduce

Synonyms

71 synonyms

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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