MEANING
To speak or write falsely and maliciously about someone so as to injure their reputation.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- traduce a rival
- traduce someone's character
On the page
The pamphlet traduced a rival who could no longer answer.
He would not permit the dead woman's character to be traduced.
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Word forms
- Base
- traduce
- Past tense
- traduced
- Past participle
- traduced
- Present participle
- traducing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- traduce
- Present continuous
- am/is/are traducing
- Present perfect
- have/has traduced
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been traducing
- Past
- traduced
- Past continuous
- was/were traducing
- Past perfect
- had traduced
- Past perfect continuous
- had been traducing
- Future
- will traduce
- Future continuous
- will be traducing
- Future perfect
- will have traduced
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been traducing
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: traduce; traduces; traduced; traduced; traducing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: traduces.
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